Australian Crime News

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
07:15 - No apology to Mohammed Haneef despite official report finding he was wrongly detained (audio)

The highest legal officer in the Howard Government at the time, the Attorney General Phillip Ruddock tells Marius Benson the Indian doctor isn't entitled to an apology or compensation

12/24/2008 7:15:00 AM

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Tuesday 17:50 - NSW government announces a gun amnesty as it tests an expanded emergency warning system (audio)

John Barron asks the Police Minister Tony Kelly about the two initiatives

12/23/2008 5:50:00 PM

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
17:15 - Former Immigration Minister says he's been vindicated by the findings of the Clarke Inquiry into the Mohammad Haneef case (audio)

Kevin Andrews tells John Barron he acted on the best advice he had at the time, and his actions were not politically motivated

12/23/2008 5:15:00 PM

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
16:45 - Mentally ill man kept in Northern Territory jail because a judge found there was nowhere else for him to go (audio)

John Barron speaks to N.T. A-M-A President, Dr Peter Beaumont who's called for a re-examination of the way we care for the mentally ill and disabled

12/23/2008 4:45:00 PM

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
11:15 - Newspaper reports claim Alice Springs is 'in meltdown', and unsafe - but the city's mayor accuses the paper of a beat-up ... (audio)

Damien Ryan is the Mayor of Alice Springs - he tells Anna Hipsley why the thinks 'The Australian' report is misleading

12/22/2008 11:15:00 AM

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
$400 million detention centre on Christmas Island brought into service after another boatload of asylum-seekers was picked up (audio)

Ben McLean speaks to Dr Graham Tom, Amnesty International's Refugee Co-ordinator, who has toured the new centre

12/19/2008 1:15:00 PM

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Federal Government plan to ban guns with a military-style appearance that appeal to a younger market (audio)

Home Affairs Minister Bob Debus tells Anna Hipsley why the government doesn't want these weapons coming into the country

12/19/2008 11:45:00 AM

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Appeals Court judge Virginia Bell appointed to the High Court (audio)

John Barron talks to Roger West who was principal solicitor at the Redfern Legal Centre where Justice Bell began her career in 1978

12/15/2008 6:20:00 PM

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Mental Illness Fellowship of Victoria says last night's fatal police shooting could have been avoided with better training (audio)

Shon Walker discusses issues surrounding the death of the 15 year old with Fellowship Chief Executive, Elizabeth Crowther

12/12/2008 1:45:00 PM

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Victoria police have shot dead a 15 year old boy in Melbourne's north after he allegedly threatened them with knives (audio)

Assistant Commissioner Tim Cartwright tells Glen Bartholomew what happened and why

12/12/2008 8:50:00 AM

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Victoria's Office of Police Integrity requires officers to show more respect to prisoners (audio)

OPI Director, Michael Strong tells Ben McLean people have misinterpreted what the guidelines are about

12/11/2008 2:50:00 PM

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Crime Commission may be about to lose 25% of its staff and close public offices (audio)

Anna Hipsley discusses implications of the rumoured budget cuts for our crime fighting abilities with criminal barrister Peter Faris QC

12/10/2008 9:45:00 AM

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
DPP to grant corporate bosses who blow the whistle on cartel behaviour immunity from prosecution... (audio)

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission head, Graham Samuel tells Steve Chase what it means for the pursuit of white collar crime

12/2/2008 8:15:00 AM

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Fears that domestic violence victims might be endangered if mandatory charges are introduced... (audio)

Karen Mifsudd from Womens' Legals Services (NSW) and explains her reservations to John Barron

11/28/2008 11:20:00 AM

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Federal Police will not seek to extend a control order against David Hicks (audio)

Steve Chase seeks reaction from Nicola McGarrity, Director of Terrorism and the Law project at the Gilbert and Tobin Centre at the UNSW

11/20/2008 5:45:00 PM

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Extent of domestic abuse revealed by a new report for the White Ribbon Foundation, which campaigns to end violence against women (audio)

Dr Michael Flood - one of the report's authors - speaks to Ben McLean

11/17/2008 4:15:00 PM

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Every seventh schoolgirl 'a victim of sexual assault' says Australian Institiute of Family Studies ... (audio)

Ben McLean talks to Darryl Higgins, GM of Research with the group

11/10/2008 10:50:00 AM

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Executing the Bali bombers would be a grave mistake: leading Aussie lawyer... (audio)

Melbourne barrister, Julian McMahon, represents Australian drug-smugglers who also face the death sentence in Indonesia ... Shon Walker asked him what he would say the the families of the 88 Australian Bali Bombing victims?

11/6/2008 1:15:00 PM

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Uniting Church in South Australia to examine whether the State's jails are doing enough to rehabilitate prisoners... (audio)

Church moderator Rod Dyson tells Shon Walker they have have some serious doubts about the state of South Australian prison-system

11/5/2008 1:45:00 PM

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Cup Champagne lunches - End of year work parties - 'Tis the season, it seems, for increased workplace sexual harassment... (audio)

Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick tells Anna Hipsley of a new study showing one in five people don't actually recognise when they're being sexually harrassed

11/3/2008 9:45:00 AM