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Troy Smith, who was arrested in April after police found methamphetamine in his hotel room in Bali, is sentenced to six-month drug rehabilitation by an Indonesian court.

Authorities patrolled a remote part of the Queensland-Nothern Territory border this week following the NT's "Cracker Night", and say many people are unaware of the jail time they could face.

Courtroom 17 is like any other in the busy Angas Street building, in Adelaide's Victoria Square — here people from all walks of life can be the accused or the victim of family violence. The ABC has been granted access to spend one day in the specialist Family Violence Court.

A former Tasmanian cop repeatedly groomed boys over his decades-long career. A report into Paul Reynolds has outlined how he used his standing in the community to do it.

A Queensland Police Service spokesperson has told the ABC the "hands-on" use of police property had been approved and "intended to break down barriers".

SA Health is investigating allegations staff "inappropriately" accessed the hospital records of a patient.

Giving evidence on the fourth day of a coronial inquest into the death of an Indigenous woman in WA's Mid West, Senior Constable Brent Wyndham says everything he did on the night she died "was right".

68-year-old Patricia McKay was struck and killed by a white sedan during a botched robbery attempt at Fashion Island mall, Newport Beach.

Kalgoorlie Police arrest a man who allegedly stole a car in Kalgoorlie with six children sitting in the back.

A teenage boy who allegedly wielded a machete during a brawl that sent the Westfield Marion shopping centre into lockdown last month has been granted home detention bail.

A man who bought a 3D printer to help his autistic son with school work has been granted bail after spending nine months in jail on weapons manufacture charges.

Claudean Jonathon Williams is alleged to have stolen the SUV from a Kalgoorlie shopping centre where it was parked with six children inside.

A senior Tasmanian police officer who was under investigation for child sexual abuse offences when he died by suicide was still sending explicit messages to teens in the days leading up to his death, a report finds.

Northern Territory police have found human remains belonging to a missing 12-year-old girl who is suspected to have been taken by a crocodile in a remote NT creek. 

Police say a synthetic opioid was detected in the systems of four people who died in a house in Broadmeadows, in Melbourne's north last week. A 17-year-old boy was among those who died.

Police allege a child was in the boot of a car which crashed in Far North Queensland, resulting in attempted murder charges against a 32-year-old woman.

A teenage boy who allegedly fled the scene of a fatal crash in Melbourne's east has faced a Children's Court charged with dangerous driving causing death. Two teenage girls also face charges.

Despite anecdotal information suggesting spiking is reasonably common, only seven people went to court charged with unlawful drink spiking in Queensland between July 2021 and May 2024.

A coronial inquiry has heard police internal affairs found an officer failed four times to follow the WA Police use of force policy when shooting an armed Indigenous woman in the Mid West city of Geraldton in 2019.

Farah Priela, a California school teacher, was exploring Queensland's north coast when she boarded the Greyhound service to begin her journey back to America.

Victoria Police detectives from the Homicide Squad are investigating, under supervision from Professional Standards Command, after a man died while under arrest in the Macedon Ranges town of Kyneton.

Garry the gorilla will be returned to his rightful home at a Victorian retirement village after the fibreglass silverback was stolen last month. 

Victoria Police's Homicide Squad is investigating the death of the 27-year-old man, who officers say became unwell and unresponsive while they were arresting him.

Victorian police are asking for the public to help with a manhunt following a fatal collision in the Melbourne suburb of Burwood.

A 14-year-old boy has been arrested and is undergoing health assessments after he allegedly stabbed a 22-year-old student at the University of Sydney on Tuesday morning. The Counter Terrorism and and Special Tactics Command is investigating the stabbing.