Courts
Defence whistleblower sentenced to years in jail
Justice David Mossop said David McBride was not a nefarious character but had become “obsessed with the correctness of his own feelings”.
- by Paul Sakkal
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Charlise Mutten asked if her alleged killer would make a good dad, jury told
The nine-year-old girl was excited to visit her mother, Kallista Mutten, and her mother’s fiance, Justin Stein, before her alleged murder, her grandfather has said.
- by Sarah McPhee
Lehrmann inquiry chair Walter Sofronoff facing corruption probe
Former Queensland Supreme Court judge Walter Sofronoff, KC, chaired the inquiry into the conduct of the abandoned rape trial of former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann last year, himself creating controversy after he sent copies of his findings to The Australian and ABC before handing the report to the ACT government in July.
- by Angus Thompson
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Man accused of killing Charlise Mutten claims girl’s mother shot her, jury told
Justin Stein has denied murdering his partner’s daughter at his family’s Blue Mountains property in 2022, but admits he disposed of the nine-year-old’s body.
- by Sarah McPhee
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Teen jailed for North Lakes murder and ‘the trauma of the aftermath’
Emma Lovell died protecting her family during a violent home invasion on Boxing Day in 2022. Her teenage killer has now been sentenced.
- by Cloe Read
A Trump trial. Raging wars. Campus protests. Is everything ‘on fire’?
Most Americans say they’re unhappy with the direction of the country, but they’re generally satisfied with their personal lives.
- by Reis Thebault and Hannah Natanson
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Commonwealth Bank
‘$$landed’: How a Commonwealth Bank manager took millions in bribes
“I cannot believe we were this stupid,” read the message to Jon Waldron shortly before Christmas 2014. Within days, he had been sacked from the Commonwealth Bank.
- by Michaela Whitbourn
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Crime
Man accused of ‘escalating’ sexual attacks on strangers repeatedly bailed
Facing allegations of public masturbation, threatening sexual comments, stalking of women and girls, Geoffrey Postle has repeatedly been released despite police warnings.
- by Perry Duffin and Clare Sibthorpe
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Federal
Detainee released by Coalition one of trio accused of attack on grandmother
It can be revealed a second man accused of a brutal attack on a Perth grandmother was released from detention when Peter Dutton was minister for home affairs.
- by David Crowe, Rebecca Peppiatt and Heather McNeill
Stabbing video not offensive enough to be removed, X Corp tells court
X Corp’s legal team argues that footage of a Sydney priest being stabbed does not meet the legal threshold for it to be forcibly removed.
- by Paul Sakkal
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US Votes 2024
‘It could boomerang’: Stormy Daniels testimony on sex, lies and money is risky for both sides
The porn actor’s account was explosive in her indignant delivery and in the details of a sexual encounter with Donald Trump that at times sounded non-consensual.
- by Shayna Jacobs, Perry Stein, Marianne LeVine and Devlin Barrett