Imprisonment rates in Australia are currently the highest they have been in a century, despite a significant fall in crime, and the Productivity Commission is stepping in to determine why. The ...

Police failed to act on repeated warnings about a violent man before he killed a toddler. But that’s not the most shocking thing about this case ...

The rorting of Victoria's Big Build is unique not only for the scale of its financial impact, but also for the demonstrable lack of government or regulatory pushback.

In recent months, there has been increasing focus on crime committed by young people in Australia. Politicians are coming under more pressure to respond to these well-publicized criminal acts and the ...

Australian Jews were facing violent incidents for months but authorities say there hasn’t been a significant attack since early February. At first glance, when police discovered a camper vehicle ...

Crime and public safety are usually the domain of state politics. But the Coalition tried to elevate them as key issues for voters in the recent federal election. Claiming crime had been “allowed to ...

Two multi-ton cocaine seizures near Australia and New Zealand had an estimated street value of over $1 billion, leading to a rethink about the flow of drugs being sent down under from Latin America.