CANBERRA, ACT, Jan. 31 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: A Sydney man is expected to appear in Downing Centre Local Court today (31 January, 2025) charged with four child abuse material-related offences and drug possession. AFP Child Protection investigators arrested the man, 58, yesterday (30 January, 2025) at a Sydney CBD hotel. The AFP allegedly identified the man while investigating a report from the United States National Center for Missing and Exploited Ch...
CANBERRA, ACT, Jan. 31 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: A man was sentenced to three years' imprisonment by the Perth District Court yesterday (30 January, 2025) after he tried to traffic drugs while in a WA detention centre. The District Court has ordered the man, 30, serve 18 months in custody before he will be released on a recognisance order to be of good behaviour. The man smuggled a variety of border-controlled drugs, contained in two small packages, into...
CANBERRA, ACT, Jan. 31 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: A Melbourne man is expected to appear before the Melbourne Magistrates' Court today (31 January, 2025) charged with online child abuse-related offences. The Victorian Joint Anti Child Exploitation Team (JACET) charged the man on 26 January, 2025, after Australian Border Force (ABF) officers allegedly found child abuse material on the man's mobile phone. The man, 49, arrived in Australia on a flight from th...
CANBERRA, ACT, Jan. 31 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: A Sudan-born man has appeared before Blacktown Local Court today (31 January, 2025), charged with allegedly failing to comply with his visa-mandated curfew conditions. The man, 29, was charged today (31 January, 2025), after he was located in Sydney. It will be alleged the man breached one of the conditions of his Commonwealth visa on multiple occasions since 21 January, 2025, by failing to abide by his re...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Jan. 31 -- The Queensland Cabinet issued text of the following statement: Published Yesterday at 10:23 AM Deputy Premier, Minister for State Development, Infrastructure and Planning and Minister for Industrial Relations The Honourable Jarrod Bleijie A Fresh Start for Queensland: Local community consultation rights made permanent on wind farm developments * Election commitment to make wind farms impact assessable delivered * Mandatory community consultation now required...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Jan. 31 -- The Queensland Cabinet issued text of the following statement: Published Yesterday at 02:02 PM Minister for Primary Industries The Honourable Tony Perrett Crisafulli Government's long-term plan for growing primary industries' prosperity * Work to develop a 25-year blueprint to shape the future of Queensland's primary industries to begin. * This blueprint will be a critical component to help deliver upon our ambitious target to grow the sector's value to $3...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Jan. 31 -- The Queensland Cabinet issued text of the following statement: Published Yesterday at 03:24 PM Minister for Health and Ambulance Services The Honourable Tim Nicholls Hervey Bay Hospital first site for new statewide Telestroke Service * The new Queensland Telestroke service will support approximately 2 million Queenslanders who live in regional, rural and remote areas. * Hervey Bay Hospital has piloted the service which will be rolled out at additional hospi...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Jan. 31 -- The Queensland Cabinet issued text of the following statement: Published Yesterday at 05:48 PM Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Minister for Integrity The Honourable Deb Frecklington Historic appointment of State's first Supreme Court reserve judges * Crisafulli Government appoints Queensland's first-ever reserve judges to Supreme Court * Appointment of the Honourable Robert Gotterson AO KC and the Honourable Philip Morrison KC will help ease si...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Jan. 31 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: Warning: This release contains details of a criminal investigation involving the physical abuse of a child and information in the below may contain content that is confronting, disturbing and distressing. Detectives from Logan Child Protection and Investigation Unit (CPIU) have charged a 32-year-old woman with multiple offences, including torture and grievous bodily harm, following a major investigat...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Jan. 31 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: A 17-year-old Vincent boy and a 23-year-old Garbutt man have been charged in relation to multiple alleged break and enter and property offences in Townsville. It will be alleged some of the offences relate to break and enter crimes at multiple of private homes and businesses, including tobacconist shops and service stations across the city between December 3, 2024, and January 30, 2025. It will be a...