Australia Crime News

The Australian Northern Territory (NT) will soon allow children as young as 10 to be jailed again, after a reversal of the previous government's decision to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 12.

Australian police shot and killed a "radicalised" 16-year-old boy with a knife who had wounded a member of the public in Western Australia, police and state Premier Roger Cook said Sunday.

Cricket fever had gripped the entire nation when India took on Australia in the World Cup final against Australia on Sunday.

Australia cricketer David Warner's manager James Erskine said the Sandpapergate episode was badly handled by Cricket Australia and the punishment meted out to the players "didn't fit the crime".

Australia's top general said Thursday there was credible evidence that his special forces unlawfully killed 39 unarmed civilians and prisoners during the war in Afghanistan, referring the matter to a special war crimes prosecutor.

A 33-year-old Australian woman was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a posh colony in the city, police said today.

Two Indian men, accused of abducting and raping a woman in Australia, were found guilty of the crime on Monday, media reported.

An Indian-origin man was on Wednesday charged with the murder of a Singaporean student at a hotel in the Australian city of Brisbane.

Many cases of female genital mutilation likely go unreported in Australia, a state minister said on Friday after four people were charged over the alleged circumcision of two girls aged 6 and 7.

An Indian-origin doctor has been jailed for six years in Australia for raping a woman seven times in one night and taking photographs, a media report said on Wednesday. Arvind Sharma, 37, was found guilty by a jury of seven counts of rape and three of indecent assaults, the Herald Sun reported on Wednesday.Sharma, from Bendigo city, and his victim ...

The Australian Northern Territory (NT) will soon allow children as young as 10 to be jailed again, after a reversal of the previous government's decision to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 12.

Australian police shot and killed a "radicalised" 16-year-old boy with a knife who had wounded a member of the public in Western Australia, police and state Premier Roger Cook said Sunday.

Cricket fever had gripped the entire nation when India took on Australia in the World Cup final against Australia on Sunday.

Australia cricketer David Warner's manager James Erskine said the Sandpapergate episode was badly handled by Cricket Australia and the punishment meted out to the players "didn't fit the crime".

Australia's top general said Thursday there was credible evidence that his special forces unlawfully killed 39 unarmed civilians and prisoners during the war in Afghanistan, referring the matter to a special war crimes prosecutor.

A 33-year-old Australian woman was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a posh colony in the city, police said today.

Two Indian men, accused of abducting and raping a woman in Australia, were found guilty of the crime on Monday, media reported.

An Indian-origin man was on Wednesday charged with the murder of a Singaporean student at a hotel in the Australian city of Brisbane.

Many cases of female genital mutilation likely go unreported in Australia, a state minister said on Friday after four people were charged over the alleged circumcision of two girls aged 6 and 7.

An Indian-origin doctor has been jailed for six years in Australia for raping a woman seven times in one night and taking photographs, a media report said on Wednesday. Arvind Sharma, 37, was found guilty by a jury of seven counts of rape and three of indecent assaults, the Herald Sun reported on Wednesday.Sharma, from Bendigo city, and his victim ...