Prisoners in police cells often have less access to healthcare and less chance of being visited by family and lawyers Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast In winter this year, a young Aboriginal man with a history of self-harm who had been remanded in custody in Melbourne was told he … Read more
Police were called to a fight among a large group of men armed with machetes on Saturday evening Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, has said the state’s machete ban is working, despite reports of a … Read more
Lobby groups tell Victorian inquiry legitimate churches could be caught up in any proposed crackdown on coercive practices Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Two Christian lobby groups have pushed back against any new laws to protect vulnerable people from cults, with a Victorian inquiry told of a “palpable fear” … Read more
Exclusive: Articles about Sam and Brittany Groth failed to include key comments, documents filed in defamation and privacy case say Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A News Corp reporter failed to include a Victorian Liberal MP’s statement that allegations about … Read more
City Builders pastor’s daughter tells Victorian parliamentary inquiry into cults of ‘grave concerns’ about church Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The sister of Victorian Liberal MP Renee Heath has described their father’s church as a “cult” and told an inquiry that so-called “gay conversion” practices may still be occurring … Read more
Victoria police say pedestrian died at the scene after the crash on High Street at 8.30am Friday Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A 15-year-old boy has died after being hit by a truck outside a regional Victorian school shortly before … Read more