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The 10 messages that led to the psychologist’s punishment.

The 10 messages led to psychologist being barred from registration

Kirsten McArthur has been given a six-month ban from reapplying to be a registered psychologist for sending expletive-laden Facebook messages to her patient.

  • Julius Dennis

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Ashley Paul Griffith was sentenced to life in prison.

Childcare predator Ashley Griffith in bid to reduce life sentence

One of Australia’s worst paedophiles, who was jailed for life for sexually assaulting children over 19 years, will face a Court of Appeal hearing next month.

  • Cloe Read
Igor (left) and Kira Korolev are charged with preparing to carry out an act of espionage.

Evidence ruled secret to protect national security in case against alleged Russian spies

“The proposed orders only restrict open justice to the extent necessary to do so in the interest of national security.”

  • William Davis
Jonathan Crabtree.

‘Troubled man’ overdosed before alleged smoothie murder

A man had an overdose and took drugs in the years prior to his mother allegedly murdering him by hiding prescription medication in a fruit smoothie, a jury has heard.

  • Rex Martinich
Gry Tomte and Zdravko Bilic.

A husband lay dead outside his lavish home. Then a desperate text was sent

The 19-year-old’s phone was later traced as being at the luxury house of skincare entrepreneur Gry Tomte the night her partner was stabbed to death.

  • Cloe Read
Emma Lovell (centre) died in hospital after the stabbing at her house in North Lakes, where an accused (left) was led into a police vehicle by officers the morning after.

‘See it through’: Killer teen’s sentence cut challenged

The grieving husband of Emma Lovell, who was murdered in a brutal home invasion, has attended a High Court appeal after his wife’s teenage killer had his sentence reduced.

  • Andrew Stafford and Laine Clark
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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 Commission of Inquiry into the CFMEU wanted to speak to the men at future hearings.

Images released of protesters linked to brawl on Cross River Rail site

The CFMEU Inquiry has released images of 15 men it claimed were present at an Annerley worksite on May 1, 2024, shortly before a violent confrontation.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
Bobby Andrew Weaver (right) is seen being driven from the Tweed Heads Police Station by Queensland Police at Tweed Heads, Wednesday, April 3, 2019. Queensland Police have been granted permission by the Tweed Heads Magistrate to extradite Bobby Andrew Weaver back to Queensland in relation to the alleged murder of Goodna man David Thornton, whose body was found in a freezer buried in his backyard. (AAP Image/Darren England) NO ARCHIVING AAP Archive - Free to use

Man pleads guilty to former teacher’s ‘chest freezer’ murder

The killer was 24 at the time of the 2019 murder of a 58-year-old retired teacher, whose body was found buried in a chest freezer.

  • Rex Martinich
Arvind Ajay Singh, 43, was convicted of indecent treatment of a child under care.

Childcare abuser jailed, family left disgusted by long wait for justice

Arvind Ajay Singh will spend only 10 months behind bars – a sentence the victim’s father said had left him “absolutely devastated”.

  • Dan Nolan