Elizabeth Byrne

An ACT defence lawyer has accused the Director of Public Prosecutions of wasting time and money running cases with "no reasonable prospect of success".

Muhammad Ali, 31, who is already behind bars for a similar incident, has been sentenced to two years in jail for indecently touching a boy in his care.

A Canberra man has pleaded guilty to his part in a "cruel" and "premeditated" attack on a woman, helping trick her into a car before driving her around, hitting her with a baseball bat, choking her and demanding $10,000.

Jude Wijesinghe previously pleaded guilty to stabbing his co-worker Tshewang Choden to death in the kitchen area of the National Zoo and Aquarium in Canberra, where they both worked, in 2023.

A woman accused of covertly gathering information for the Chinese government has been granted bail in Canberra, despite police warning she could try to flee the country.

US authorities want Dan Duggan extradited from Australia for allegedly training Chinese pilots in South Africa in 2012. An appeal to avoid the extradition has started in the Federal Court today. 

The High Court has backed a decision by the government to refuse a temporary visa to American commentator Candace Owens Farmer, who had planned a speaking tour to Australia in 2024.

The Federal Court orders mediation for former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann over funding he says he was offered to pay for his lawyers.

Prosecutors call for a jail term to be imposed over the theft of more than $300,000 from a Canberra child care centre by its then-director Emma Louise Morton.

Prosecutors have called for the man to be jailed for a significant period of time after he was found guilty of raping two women by an ACT Supreme Court jury.