CANBERRA, ACT, Jan. 9 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release: ALISON PIOTROWSKI, HOST:Well, it's taken three weeks, but the Prime Minister has finally announced a Royal Commission into antisemitism following the Bondi terror attack. JOEL DRY, HOST:It comes 26 days on from the deadliest mass shooting in Australia since Port Arthur. Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, joins us now from Canberra. Prime Minister, why did you take so long to call the Royal Commission? D...
Belconnen, ACT, Jan. 9 -- ACT Policing issued the following media release: The ACT has recorded its first road fatality for 2026 following atwo-vehiclecollisionon the Monaro Highway this morning. About 11:30amtoday(Friday, 9 January 2026) police and emergency services received reportsof a collision between a car and atruck near the intersection of the Monaro HighwayandRoyallaDrive. The driver of the car, a 25-year-old man, wastreated at the scene by ACT Ambulance Service paramedics before bei...
Belconnen, ACT, Jan. 9 -- ACT Policing issued the following media release: ACTPolicing has charged more than 140 drivers with drink or drug driving following a targeted impaired driving operation last month. December (2025) saw officers from all areas of ACT Policing focus on impaired driving with almost 23,000 tests conductedduring the 31 days of the month. 64people were caught drink driving and80were caught driving with drugs in their system.For the year (2025)609people were charged with dr...
Belconnen, ACT, Jan. 9 -- ACT Policing issued the following media release: A45-year-old man has been charged with stalkinghis ex-partnerand breaching a family violence order. Police will allege the man breached a family violence order prohibiting him from contacting his ex-partner by sending her multiple emailsbetween December and January. The incidents were reported to police andon Wednesday (7 January 2026), the manwaslocatedina carpark in Gungahlin. When policeattemptedto arrest the man, ...
Belconnen, ACT, Jan. 9 -- ACT Policing issued the following media release: A30-year-old man will face court after allegedly sexually assaulting a woman known to him at a party last year. Police will allege inJune (2025), the man attended a partyin Moncrieffand sexually assaulted the woman while she was asleep. The incident was reported to police and yesterday (Thursday,8 January 2026), a search warrant was executed on the man's vehicle. Hewill face the ACT Magistrates court today (Friday, 9 ...
Belconnen, ACT, Jan. 8 -- ACT Policing issued the following media release: UPDATE: Thanks Canberra, the missing 47-year-old man we posted about earlier today has been located safe and well this evening. ************************************************************************************* ACT Policing is seeking the public's assistance to locate missing 47-year-old man Jeremy Thurling. Jeremy has not been seen or heard from since this morning, 8 January 2026, and is last believed to be in Kow...
Belconnen, ACT, Jan. 8 -- ACT Policing issued the following media release: A 31-year-oldChisholmman will face court today afterhis alleged reckless drivingresultedin a single vehicle collision. About11.00am yesterday (Wednesday, 7 January 2026)the man was allegedly driving hiswhiteMitsubishiLancerat speed and weaving in and out of traffic along DrakefordDrive in Bonython. The manthenallegedly lostcontrol of theMitsubishi Lancercausing it to hit a curb and rolla number oftimes,flattening a ped...
Belconnen, ACT, Jan. 7 -- ACT Policing issued the following media release: A 37-year-old Braddon womanappeared in court via a bedside hearing today after allegedly stabbing a manon Monday. About3.30amon Monday(5January 2026),the womanand a man known to her were in her residence on Lowanna Street, Braddon. Sheisallegedto havetaken asteakknifefromherkitchenandstabbedthemanmultiple times. Police were calledandarrivedattheunit complexashort timelater,where theylocatedthe manoutsidebleedingheavily...
Belconnen, ACT, Jan. 7 -- ACT Policing issued the following media release: ACT Policing has seized a Holden Commodore overnight after the vehicle was allegedly involved in burnout activity on the Barton Highway on Monday night. About 7:40pm yesterday (Tuesday, 6 January 2026), officers from Road Policing conducted a traffic stop on a modified yellow 1991 Holden Commodore sedan bearing Victorian club registration plates. Checks on the vehicle revealed the club registration plates had expired i...
Belconnen, ACT, Jan. 7 -- ACT Policing issued the following media release: A33-year-old Whitlam man will face the ACTMagistratesCourt today after being charged with multiple historical sexualassault offences. In February (2025) police received a report from a womanregardingalleged multiple sexual assaults and acts of indecency by her ex-partner. The alleged offending occurred between 2007 and 2016. Following anextensiveinvestigation bytheSexual Assault and Child Abuse Team,officers attended ...