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Five-Year-Old Boy Dies, Three Critical After Blue Mountains Stabbing
A five-year-old boy has died and two younger children and a 42-year-old woman remain in critical condition after a stabbing at Valley Heights in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. Emergency services were called to Waratah Road shortly before 1pm on Sunday after members of the public discovered four injured people inside a vehicle. Bystanders…
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Victoria Labor Pledges Australian-First Family Violence Offences
Victorian Labor has promised two new offences targeting gaps in family violence law if it wins another term at the November state election, including an Australian-first form of manslaughter for cases in which sustained abuse causes a person to take their own life. Premier Ben Carroll announced the proposed overhaul on Sunday as part of…
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Sydney woman sentenced over husband’s manslaughter after court hears of prolonged abuse
A Sydney woman who admitted killing her husband in what prosecutors accepted was excessive self-defence has been sentenced to six years and three months in prison. Nirmeen Noufl, 55, was given a three-year non-parole period in the NSW Supreme Court on Friday. Because the sentence was backdated to her arrest in October 2024, she will…
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Teen Boys Charged With Murder Over Alleged Mistaken-Identity Killing of Marco Tapia
Two school-aged boys have been charged with murder over the alleged mistaken-identity shooting of 23-year-old university student Marco Tapia at his family’s home in Sydney’s south-west. The boys, aged 14 and 16, were arrested at separate homes in Fairfield on Wednesday after homicide detectives executed search warrants. Police allege they helped prepare for the attack…
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WA Police Union Calls for Tougher Penalties as Kimberley Officer Assaults Rise
Western Australia’s police union is calling for tougher consequences for people who assault officers after new figures showed attacks in the Kimberley remained at a high level, while separate research identified widespread post-traumatic stress among serving police. Police statistics reported by the ABC recorded 87 assaults on officers in the Kimberley in the period to…
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Snowtown murderer James Vlassakis cleared for parole after review
James Vlassakis, the youngest of the offenders convicted over South Australia’s notorious Snowtown murders, has been cleared for release on parole after a review upheld an earlier Parole Board decision. Vlassakis has spent more than 27 years in custody. Now in his mid-40s, he was sentenced in 2002 to life imprisonment with a non-parole period…
Five-Year-Old Boy Dies, Three Critical After Blue Mountains Stabbing
A five-year-old boy has died and two younger children and a 42-year-old woman remain in critical condition after a stabbing at Valley Heights in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. Emergency services were called to Waratah Road shortly before 1pm on Sunday after members of the public discovered four injured people inside a vehicle. Bystanders contacted Triple Zero and provided first aid until police and paramedics arrived. NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Peter McKenna said on Monday that all three children were aged under five. He described the woman as a suspect and said investigators were treating the incident as a…
Victoria Labor Pledges Australian-First Family Violence Offences
Victorian Labor has promised two new offences targeting gaps in family violence law if it wins another term at the November state election, including an Australian-first form of manslaughter for cases in which sustained abuse causes a person to take their own life. Premier Ben Carroll announced the proposed overhaul on Sunday as part of a wider package covering family violence, sexual offences and sentencing. The plan would also create a specific offence for an abuser who abandons a victim needing urgent medical care. New offences aimed at gaps in existing law The proposed manslaughter provision is intended to recognise…
Sydney woman sentenced over husband’s manslaughter after court hears of prolonged abuse
A Sydney woman who admitted killing her husband in what prosecutors accepted was excessive self-defence has been sentenced to six years and three months in prison. Nirmeen Noufl, 55, was given a three-year non-parole period in the NSW Supreme Court on Friday. Because the sentence was backdated to her arrest in October 2024, she will become eligible to apply for parole in October 2027. Noufl pleaded guilty to manslaughter in August, shortly before she was due to stand trial for the murder of her 62-year-old husband, Mamdouh Noufl. Prosecutors accepted the lesser plea on the basis that she had used…
CGT Changes Will Apply Across All Assets, Not Just Property
Australia's proposed capital gains tax (CGT) reforms are shaping up as one of the most…
Financial educator’s advice on how to reduce your home payment by up to $7000 in 2023
Mortgage holders are still having trouble as a result of the eight consecutive increases in…
The Reserve Bank of Australia increases the cash rate for a ninth month in a row.
The Reserve Bank of Australia increased the cash rate to its highest level in more…