12 h. ago Police investigating after cluster of people hospitalised by rat poison

Police are working with health authorities to trace the source of a potential rat poison contamination in Queensland's south-east.

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14 h. ago Queensland police now involved in rat poisoning investigation

Health authorities have enlisted police to help locate the source of a poisoning incident that saw five Logan residents from separate families hospitalised.

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47 h. ago Brisbane news live: Superstar singer Teddy Swims surprises fans in Valley beer garden; PM heads to Washington to meet Trump; Prince Andrew facing police investigation over Giuffre claims

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51 h. ago Prince Andrew facing police investigation over Giuffre smear claims

Prince Andrew’s biographer, Andrew Lownie, warned there was more scandal to come and this latest probe was “just the tip of the iceberg”.

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59 h. ago Two teens suffer slash wounds in machete attack near Luna Park

Police are investigating after two teens were wounded following an altercation with a group wielding machetes near Luna Park in St Kilda on Sunday night.

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65 h. ago Rat poison mystery: Queensland Health scrambles after five hospitalised

Queensland Health is scrambling to identify how at least five people were poisoned in Brisbane’s south, with tests confirming they were hospitalised after ingesting rat poison.

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3 d. ago Three unoccupied homes go up in flames in ‘suspicious’ fires

Police are investigating the suspicious fires of three unoccupied homes in Victoria.

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4 d. ago WA money laundering mastermind jailed after cleaning nearly $2 million in dirty cash

Geoff Puttick, 66, was found guilty of a raft of money laundering charges, bringing to an end a police investigation which also culminated in the imprisonment of six of his clients.

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1 week ago ‘They were terrified’: Worker tells of colleagues’ distress at machete brawl in Broadmeadows shopping centre

Police are investigating after a brawl between two groups in a shopping centre car park spilled into a busy shopping centre on Friday night.

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1 week ago Shoppers scream as pair swing machetes at each other in Broadmeadows

Police are investigating after a brawl between two groups in a shopping centre car park spilled into a busy shopping centre on Friday night.

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1 week ago Multiple people arrested following investigation into criminal contractors

Police said Strike Force Flodine had been investigating ‘contract criminals’ and their network of ‘kill cars’ around Sydney.

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1 week ago Machete brandished in school attack that left students injured

Police are investigating an affray outside the Greenvale school on Wednesday.

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1 week ago Machete brandished in school attack that left students injured, school in lockdown

Police are investigating a fight outside a Greenvale school on Wednesday.

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1 week ago Former William Tyrrell investigator says SA police looking ‘at other possibilities’ in disappearance of boy

The former lead detective in the William Tyrrell investigation says police would be exploring multiple theories to explain the disappearance of four-year-old Gus Lamont, including human or animal intervention.

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2 w. ago Main Roads to investigate ‘horrific’ intersection near where Perth grandfather died

Police Minister Reece Whitby – who described Johnny Gray’s death as a “shocking tragedy” – confirmed Main Roads WA would be conducting their own investigation into the incident, alongside WA Police. 

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3 w. ago Complaint lodged about police handling of child abuse allegation at Perth daycare

A complaint was made to WA Police following a protracted investigation into allegations of abuse at a Perth childcare centre, despite officers finding there was “no offence detected”.

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3 w. ago WA news LIVE: Police investigate alleged assault of child on Rottnest Island

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3 w. ago WA news LIVE: WA Police launch fresh search for Jennie Kehlet

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3 w. ago WA news LIVE: Perth grandmother Donna Nelson loses drug trafficking appeal

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last month Optus failure: Newborn’s death ‘unlikely’ to be caused by 000 outage, police

SA Police said preliminary investigations had found while the boy’s family had been impacted by the Triple Zero failure, it most likely didn’t lead to the baby’s death.

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