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Convicted fraudster George Alex leaves court in Sydney. He was granted bail last year despite a hefty prison sentence.

Jailed construction boss lives in the community as he fights $10m fraud conviction

It can be revealed George Alex was granted bail just months after being imprisoned for nearly a decade. He is appealing over “jury misconduct”.

  • Clare Sibthorpe

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The Crown Princess (right) with her son, Marius Borg Høiby.

Stepson of Norway’s crown prince convicted of rape, sentenced to four years’ jail

The seven-week trial of Marius Borg Hoiby, 29, has further dented the royal family’s once picture-perfect image.

  • Gwladys Fouche and Ilze Filks
Former AFL player Nick Stevens leaving the County Court in February.

Ex-AFL player jailed for defrauding families over swimming pools

Many of the regional victims were retirees or close to retirement, who were trying to install pools for their children or grandchildren.

  • William Ton
Data shows that for the financial year to January, 41 of Victoria’s 75 health services didn’t have 14-day cash supplies to cover operating costs.

Gold Coast nurse who targeted six teen girls to stay behind bars

The mental health nurse accused of having a foot fetish and targeting vulnerable teenage patients was arrested at the airport at the weekend.

  • Robyn Wuth and Courtney Kruk
Brazil bungee jumping.

Rope jumper falls to her death after staff ‘forget’ to attach safety cord

The 21-year-old woman fell to her death from a bridge in Brazil after staff overseeing her rope jump launched her over the edge without attaching a safety rope.

  • Henry Samuel
16 Yards co-chief executive Shayne Hood, and lived experience mentor Jacob Kuol.

‘You are meant to be greater’: The bold plan to stop youth crime – at the hospital bedside

Youth workers and mentors will be embedded in two major Melbourne hospitals under a pilot program to divert young offenders away from crime. 

  • Marta Pascual Juanola
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A Sydney man threw his six-year-old daughter into the Parramatta River before jumping in himself in what police believe was a carefully planned murder-suicide.

Father rehearsed murder-suicide over several days, police believe

Cameras at a waterfront property captured the man throwing his six-year-old daughter into the Parramatta River moments before jumping in himself.

  • Riley Walter
Senior curator Shannon Biederman and Melbourne artist Nina Sanadze have been commissioned to transform the flower tributes from the Bondi shooting into a permanent exhibit/artwork.

Despite our pain, the Jewish community refuses to wallow in anger

Six months on from the Bondi massacre, Australia’s Jews are in the second stage of their mourning. Next, we will seek light to dispel the darkness.

  • Alex Ryvchin
Merrylands is the epicentre of Sydney’s violent crime crisis.

The suburb at the epicentre of Sydney’s violent crime crisis

Youth workers are putting themselves between vulnerable teens and the crime families willing to pay them for brazen acts of violence.

  • Jessica McSweeney and Riley Walter
The nurse was struck off.

Tribunal finds Perth nurse was caught stealing from disabled patients, selling items on eBay

A tribunal ruled the woman was “not currently a fit and proper person” to hold a nursing registration after she allegedly stole clothing, shoes, toiletries and food from a couple whose disabled children she cared for.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt