LAW & SOCIETY

The state government of West Australia on Monday has launched the Community Protection Website, a portal which contains a list of names as well as photographs of the most dangerous and high-risk sexual offenders living within and nearby WA.

The South Australian police busted the illegal operation of a group believed to be responsible for the $2 million theft of car parts owned by GM Holden, which were pilfered from the carmaker’s Salisbury East assembly facilities in Elizabeth.

The government does not intend to hide from the public eye wrongdoings, past and present, committed by officers of the Australian Defence Force (ADF), as alleged in the review conducted by law firm DLA Piper.

Courage was the main armour that Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton had relied on for the past three decades that her family lived in fear and anxiety following the mysterious disappearance of her infant daughter Azaria back in 1980.

The Coalition assailed the incompetence displayed by the Labor-led government in handling the latest human smuggling controversy that led to the shocking flight of an Iraqi national tagged by media reports as a major operator in the illegal activity.

The long-arm of the law triumphed anew as Japanese authorities revealed on Monday the arrest and detention of a female suspect tagged as one of the principal perpetrators in the 1995 nerve gas attack that killed 13 people in Tokyo.

A Chinese woman residing in the New South Wales has admitted before the state Supreme Court that she had indeed castrated her former boyfriend last year, in an apparent pit of rage following their breakup.

China has announced over the weekend the arrest of a murder suspect, who local media reports have tagged as responsible for the brutal killings of at least 11 individuals, most of them young men residing in and around Yunnan, a province located southwest of the country.

Gay marriage has won the unconditional backing of U.S. President Barack Obama last week and Argentine President Cristina Kirchner is sending an appeal letter to Prime Minister Julia Gillard, all representing the series of events that marriage equality advocates hope would prompt the Australian government to rethink its position on the controversial issue.

Claiming adherence to the rule of law, lawyers for Labor MP Craig Thomson asked the Australian Senate on Thursday to keep the Fair Work Australia (FWA) report on the alleged wrongdoings committed by Thomson while serving as top-ranking Health Services Union (HSU) official private.

The courtroom drama pitting Gina Rinehart, Australia's richest person, and her estranged children will continue playing out before the public as the New South Wales Court of Appeal has thrown out on Friday her court plea for private arbitration of the case.

It is high time for the Australian government to reconfigure its strategy in neutralising the illegal drugs trade, a new report said, which also highlighted the seeming successes that organised crime groups have achieved against legal efforts to stem their operations.

The Rinehart legal tussle rages on as two of Gina Rinehart's children continue the mudslinging that started last week, with the latest rants provided by John Langley Hancock, who accused his mother of setting off the dispute.

Dolphins and whales deserve the same rights as humans do, according to a group of marine workers, philosophers and animal welfare activists who talked to scientists meeting in Canada.

The Rena captain has pleaded guilty to all charges in Tauranga District Court today (Wednesday), the New Zealand Herald reported.

Australian consumers are forewarned of a fake telephone survey with the aim of defrauding them using their own bank accounts and other information.

A new legislation passed into Parliament focuses on supporting Australians with disability in terms of finding work. This new legislation entitled The Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Disability Support Pension Participation Reforms) Bill 2012 introduces new participation requirements for Disability Support Pension (DSP) recipients who are capable to be employed. The bill also highlighted a much flexible law that allows DSP recipients to work for at least 30 hours a week and stil...

A 50-year-old man was sent to trial at the Brisbane's Supreme Court after helping his 76-year-old friend commit suicide. Merin Nielson, received a guilty verdict for the crime..

The Philippines is once again engrossed in an unfolding political drama that could make or break President Benigno S. Aquino III’s reform agenda.

The New Zealand government told UNICEF that it will continue to educate ethnic communities to prevent forced marriages involving young women and will not make change to the country's marriage legislation.

An Iranian national who earned a permanent resident status in Canada has been sentenced to die in Iran for “spreading corruption.”

Health authorities in Auckland have proposed a smoking ban in all public outdoor areas in the city saying the move will prevent the spread of the ill effects of second hand smoke, as well as the influence among children who are likely to pick up the habit.

A Melbourne schoolgirl who was about to turn 15 years old next week had killed herself over intolerable bullying at school and online social networks. Sheniz Erkan, a Taylors Lakes Secondary College student, took her life on Monday after having suffered from schoolyard and cyberspace bullies. Her funeral is scheduled today.

Police in Germany are investigating a grade school teacher at a private school in the northern city of Lubeck for teaching his young students how to make pipe bombs and detonating it in front of them to demonstrate its force.

Hundreds of thousands of Catholics joined the feast and annual procession for a black statue of Jesus Christ in central Manila on Monday despite an alleged plot by Muslim terrorists to explode a bomb along the route of the devotees.

Police has arrested the mental patient who skipped arrest last Friday over a crime report that arrived an hour late. Convicted criminal Trent Jennings, 26, who has been held in a psychiatric facility since 2005 after he stabbed a man to death while on drugs, tied up a man and stole his car late last week.

A 52-year-old from Torrensville was arrested Tuesday night for possessing a taser disguised as a mobile phone.

The police had him over traffic violation, but he was let go. A day later, someone came forward accusing him of sexual assault and car theft.

An Iraq War veteran who shot dead a Mount Rainier park ranger on New Year's Day was found frozen to death on Monday ending a 200-men search that included a SWAT team, K-9s and helicopters.