Courts

The North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency says hundreds of people are likely being held on remand in Northern Territory jails "unlawfully and unconstitutionally".

A judge blasts a man's "complete and utter disregard for the law" and jails him for scamming farmers desperate for feed out of money for hay bales he never delivered.

A court rules a maintenance failure caused hundreds of fish to die near Delta Electricity's Vales Point coal-fired power station in September 2022, a month after another kill triggered by natural causes.

Gregory John Walker is sentenced to at least six-and-a-half years in prison for unlawfully killing a teenager by firebombing a Sydney home in 1998 during an escalating neighbourhood dispute.

Three prominent protest groups flag they will launch a constitutional challenge to NSW Premier Chris Minns's new laws restricting protests in the state.

Authorities say Colorado funeral home operators Carie and Jon Hallford gave fake ashes to some families of the dead.

A failure to 'keep the King's Peace' and biting a police officer has almost landed a Canberra woman in jail for Christmas.

A Mount Gambier man is sentenced after hiring a crane and partially destroying another man's home.

Security camera footage captured the Bondi Beach gunmen carrying what appears to be firearms out of a south-west Sydney property on the morning of the terror attack, court documents reveal.

Taxpayers have funded $1.6 million in payments to the firefighters union via Fire Rescue Victoria, court documents allege, under an income protection scheme the state's fire chief has said should outrage all Victorians.

The Federal Court orders the fashion retailer to pay $14 million in fines after it was taken to court by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. 

The NSW Coroners Court hands down findings into the 2023 death of a young Indigenous mother after a doctor gave evidence the woman may have died from "broken-heart syndrome".

A 20-year-old who allegedly tried to organise a racial hatred event at Cronulla on the same day as the Bondi Beach terrorist attack is refused bail.

The Bondi gunman accused of killing 15 people conducted "firearms training" in a regional area with his father and recorded a video about their "justification" for the attack, according to documents released by a Sydney court.

The wife of the beloved soccer coach, who died during a home invasion, wants to help break the cycle of youth crime through sport.

Jessica Seage fought for six years for the man who raped her to be convicted. Experts say her experience is a stark example of how perpetrators abuse the system to inflict more pain on their victims.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former prince, appears in the first tranche of the so-called Epstein files. 

A work health and safety case against a distillery in Perth, northern Tasmania, is dismissed.

The NT coroner makes nine recommendations following an inquest into the deaths of two disabled Aboriginal brothers who spent a number of years homeless in Alice Springs.

In every Australian state and the NT, churches cannot be held vicariously liable for historical child sexual abuse perpetrated by their priests. Grace Tame is leading the charge for change.