Nino Bucci

Some state police forces have specific laws and units relating to hate crime, others have neither. Experts say a national definition is needed

North Melbourne have won more consecutive games – 24 – than any VFL/AFL/AFLW team as attention turns to winning back-to-back premierships

Police are working to identify the women and ask anyone who had seen two women appearing ‘disoriented’ in the area earlier to contact Crime Stoppers

The six Australians received no government assistance in their 500km journey from the violent Al-Hawl detention camp to Lebanon

Lawyers for Erin Patterson confirmed on Thursday that she would appeal against her convictions, after she was sentenced to life imprisonment last month

Health regulator places conditions on Dr Christopher Webster’s registration over comments made after mushroom lunch murder trial

Justice and courts reporter Nino Bucci tells Nour Haydar how Justice Christopher Beale arrived at his historic decision to sentence Erin Patterson to life in prison, 33 years non-parole

Triple murderer sentenced in Victorian supreme court after killing relatives with a beef wellington lunch laced with death cap mushrooms

Sunday march organised by ‘White Australians’ condemned as hateful by federal government

Sending 10 Victoria police officers to execute a warrant on the 56-year-old would have been ‘worst thing’ for Freeman, says man who has known him since the 1990s