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A son lost: Ingrid Bishop and (inset) Josh Warneke.

WA coroner says Broome man’s death was a homicide, sends case back to prosecutors

Coroner Ros Fogliani delivered her findings on the Josh Warneke case after a nine-day hearing at the Broome courthouse last year.

  • Hannah Murphy

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Former Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and her partner Vahid Reza Adib.

Family says it was obvious grandmother shouldn’t have been discharged after Adib surgery

The Gold Coast woman died days after she was operated on by the prominent weight-loss surgeon, a coroner finding that her path to surgery was rushed.

  • Courtney Kruk
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor with Virginia Giuffre (centre) and Jeffrey Epstein’s then personal assistant, Ghislaine Maxwell, in 2001.

‘Profound injustice’: 16 experts demand inquest for Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre

A rare intervention by some of Australia’s most prominent domestic violence experts warns it would be a “profound injustice” if potential systemic failures were not scrutinised.

  • Carla Hildebrandt and Melissa Fyfe
Samantha Knight’s killer Michael Guider died in 2024

Court to probe death of Samantha Knight’s heinous killer

Serial child abuser and killer Michael Guider briefly tasted freedom before he was returned to prison to die, ensuring a court must probe the final months of his life.

  • Perry Duffin
Dezi Freeman

Inquests into Dezi Freeman and slain police officers to begin next week

New details about Australia’s most expensive and longest manhunt are expected to be brought to light at the upcoming coroner’s investigations.

  • Carla Jaeger
An image of 22-year-old Tallis Ahfat released by police after he went missing.

Search delay for missing Indigenous man, coroner hears

A young Indigenous man’s missing persons case could have had a different outcome if police started searching earlier and followed all procedures, a coroner has heard.

  • Rex Martinich
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Lachlan Bowles (top right) shot dead Terry Czernowski (bottom right) at Moynes Grain Silos in Kellerberrin.

‘Impossible to know’: Questions remain unanswered after coroner’s probe into Kellerberrin shooting

Coroner Michael Jenkin handed down his findings of his inquest into the 2023 Wheatbelt shooting on Wednesday.

  • Hannah Murphy
Sandipan’s father Sanjoy Dhar at Dhar’s Butler home on Monday.

Perth father vows to keep fighting after son’s hospital death that ‘totally destroyed our lives’

Sanjoy Dhar wants more accountability of hospitals and doctors, telling media on Monday his son was robbed of the opportunity to grow up and become an extraordinary person. 

  • Hamish Hastie
The shooting occurred in March 2023.

‘Drop the knife’: Conflicting accounts of cop shooting

Conflicting accounts of whether a specialist officer gave warnings before opening fire will sit at the heart of a charged inquest into an Indigenous man’s death.

  • Rex Martinich
The report also calls for a review of maternity and paediatric services.

Coroner links Perth boy’s death to injuries sustained as a baby while playing with stepfather

An inquest held into the boy’s death heard he had suffered a traumatic brain injury when he was just eight months old, and later died aged 11.

  • Hannah Murphy