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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Alexandra Alvaro |Kristian Silva
Armed with knives and a cricket bat, two "delusional" teenagers with plans to take over Australia killed a defenceless mother in a frenzied rage, a Victorian court has been told. For legal reasons, the ABC is unable to report many details of the distressing case, including the identities of the victim and the two boys involved. The woman's son, now aged 17, has pleaded guilty to murder and is alleged to have inflicted the fatal injuries.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Kristian Silva |David Estcourt |Alexandra Alvaro
The daytime assassination of one of Melbourne's most notorious underworld figures has gripped a city. But the killing of Sam Abdulrahim is better understood against the backdrop of another brazen shooting that took place in 2016, when a dispute with a rival fuelled a deadly vengeance that "The Punisher" spent years fleeing but could never escape.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Luke Radford |Alexandra Alvaro
PhD enrolments in Australia are shrinking, as the cost of living squeezes Australian students. The PhD stipend is just $33,511, which equates to $15 an hour for a full time workload. Now a growing group of individuals and organisations are calling for an increase.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Alexandra Alvaro |Andi Yu
Alexandra Paton has learned to live below minimum wage for her passion. "I've been to Tassie's beautiful, remote islands and camped overnight and seen every star in the sky," the University of Tasmania PhD candidate said. The 27-year-old ecologist has had to live frugally, becoming a vegetarian by default because it's cheaper. When she began her PhD into invasive species management, the federal government-provided stipend to support her 38-hour research week was $29,863.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Alexandra Alvaro |Melissa Brown
Doctors in Melbourne are trying to save the vision of an Australian student who was injured during an alleged military raid in the West Bank. Ranem Abu Izneid was in her dormitory at Al-Quds University in Abu Dis, a Palestinian town in the West Bank, when her room was hit by alleged Israeli gunfire and she was struck by shrapnel on November 15. Her mother said the 20-year-old dentistry student suffered multiple injuries. "The worst one was to her eye, the most severe one," Rana Abu Izneid said.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Alexandra Alvaro
It was a Wednesday morning in Rome when Italian police received a pivotal Interpol red notice from Victorian police. By about 4pm the next day, Perry Kouroumblis would be under arrest for the killings of two Australian women almost 50 years ago. Finally, it seemed, we could be closer to understanding how Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett were brutally murdered in their Easey Street home in January 1977.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Alexandra Alvaro
Coroner Simon Cooper has found Nelda Edwards died from mixed drug toxicity, administered by her medically trained son, Stephen Edwards. Mr Cooper has accused Stephen Edwards of being an "unimpressive witness" and of telling lies to the court during the inquest. The coroner did not make any recommendations in handing down his findings. A coronial inquest into the deaths of an elderly Tasmanian woman and her husband has found she died as a result of drugs administered by her son.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Alexandra Alvaro
Darren Mark Wake has been sentenced to 26 years in prison for the stabbing murder of his ex-wife, Rachel Wake, on Christmas Day in 2021. In sentencing, Justice Helen Wood described the crime as a "brutal and vicious attack carried out for reasons of anger and resentment". Justice Wood imposed a non-parole period of 17 years from the date of the crime. A Hobart man who murdered his ex-wife on Christmas Day in 2021 has been sentenced to 26 years imprisonment, with a non-parole period of 17 years.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Alexandra Alvaro
A woman who encouraged her husband while he attacked their neighbour with a chainsaw has been sentenced to three years jail in the Supreme Court in Hobart. While she didn't wield the chainsaw herself, Justice Stephen Estcourt said Lisa Anne Perryman's criminal responsibility and moral culpability were too high for anything but time in jail. Ms Perryman will be eligible for parole after serving half her sentence.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Alexandra Alvaro
The Tasmanian Department of Education and one of its former teachers have been ordered to pay victim-survivor of child sexual abuse, Katrina Munting, combined damages of more than $2 million. Katrina Munting was 14 years old when she was groomed and sexually abused by her science teacher, Marcus Pollard, at Hobart's Rose Bay High School in the late1990s. Pollard was convicted of persistent sexual abuse of a young person in 2020 and was sentenced to three years' imprisonment.
