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Damian Scott Wanstall, 49, is seeking to avoid a full-time jail sentence after pleading guilty to one charge of using a carriage service to procure a child under 16 for sexual activity.
More than 90 prison security agents are currently being held by inmates across five different prisons in Ecuador, amid escalating violence in the country which saw a local mayor killed.
A person who stole a car in Melbourne yesterday with a toddler still inside remains on the loose this morning as police continue their desperate search for the vehicle.
The Northern Territory is days away from raising the criminal age of responsibility while the government is now proposing stronger laws to crack down on knife crime.
The yacht was seized by Border Force and federal police officers when it arrived in Townsville from Vanuatu in April and was later revealed to contain the drugs with a street value of more than $61 million.
Rose Howell was just 18 at the time she vanished, and though a coroner found that "it's likely" she died, the circumstances surrounding her death remain unknown.
A South Australian mother has told of the moment her 10-month-old son was nearly crushed after an out-of-control car came crashing into their front yard in Adelaide's north.
Almost two years to the day since world champion kayaker Nathan Baggaley and his brother were jailed over a bungled cocaine-smuggling plot, Dru Baggaley says there has been a miscarriage of justice.