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ACT: NSW man faces Court over online grooming

December 23, 2025

ACT Policing has charged a 29-year-old NSW man after he allegedly travelled to Canberra to have sex with a 14-year-old girl. Police allege the man initiated contact with the young person in January (2025) through social media and engaged in ongoing conversations that became sexualised, despite being aware the girl was 14-years-old. The communications later moved to a messaging application, where police…

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WA: Court orders $1.8m home to be forfeited over cocaine import

December 17, 2025

The $1.8 million family home of a Sydney man has been restrained and forfeited to the Commonwealth after he was imprisoned over his involvement in a 2022 plot to import 56kg of cocaine into Western Australia. The AFP-led Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce started an investigation into the finances of the man, now 57, after he…

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NT: $10,000 fine after fireball

A Darwin based garden maintenance company was fined $10,000 in the Darwin Local Court after a refuelling incident injured one of its workers. Two employees of Tiger Contracting NT Pty Ltd (trading as Tiger Trees NT) were refuelling a work vehicle using a jerry can in October 0222. One employee held the jerry can, while…

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