The prime minister expected the week would be dominated by the unveiling of the government’s new defence strategy. Instead,Australia’s internal security was on the agenda.
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus demands men “step up” and educate themselves,as the number of women killed in violent incidents across the nation this year reached 24.
The 16-year-old boy who allegedly stabbed Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel at a western Sydney church had not attended school for more than six months,and his father had also seen signs of increasing “disobedience”.
Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was preaching to a small congregation,but thousands were tuning in via a livestream. Within minutes,they were arriving by the carload.
Emmanuel is a prominent leader of an ultra-conservative sect of the Assyrian Orthodox known for being critical of lockdowns and vaccines.
When Lisa Pires saw women saying they were randomly punched in New York in the lead-up to her holiday there,it sounded too absurd to be true. Then it happened to her.
A mother and her baby were among those attacked by the man,who wandered the centre with a knife and attacked people on the first day of school holidays.
Residents in Sydney’s west can expect a heavy police presence across the next few days as authorities hope to make more arrests following the stabbing.
Funding will be spread across a range of initiatives,including primary prevention,education and a new peak body for the sector.
Essendon’s Nick Hind wore a black armband and a wristband bearing the name of his cousin,Hannah McGuire,whose body was found in a burnt-out car.
Nestled into flowers in a scorched patch of bushland is a note from Hannah McGuire’s family containing two words the women of Ballarat desperately need to hear.