Domestic violence
Championing for Molly: Perth mum’s milestone in her quest for justice
Julie Adams watched helplessly as her daughter’s superannuation was handed over to her abuser. Then she decided to fight back, whatever it cost her personally.
- by Claire Ottaviano
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Australia has $1.7b in unpaid child support. These MPs have a plan to claw it back
An eight-month parliamentary inquiry heard that unpaid child support was being used as a form of financial abuse.
- by Hamish Hastie
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Justice
‘Astonishing’: Legal fraternity lashes premier, defends judiciary amid furore over magistrate’s comments
WA’s legal fraternity has come out swinging after Premier Roger Cook called for a magistrate to be reprimanded over comments about a domestic violence victim, prompting a row between the two arms of government.
- by Jesinta Burton and Claire Ottaviano
Opinion
Financial planners
It’s the domestic abuser’s hidden weapon. But if you wield it, your time’s up
Financial abuse is a form of intimate-partner violence, but now perpetrators and their facilitators are on notice: with unanimous support from a parliamentary committee, reform is coming.
- by Deborah O'Neill
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Investigations
Call to outlaw ‘coercive’ cults, stop financial secrecy for extreme churches
Revelations about alleged abuse and other disturbing behaviour at a secretive Pentecostal church have sparked calls for reform.
- by Richard Baker
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Crime
Son charged with murdering parents at western Sydney takeaway
Their 31-year-old son has been charged with two counts of murder following the deaths of a married couple who ran the Buzzy Bee’s Burger House in Cambridge Park.
- by Sally Rawsthorne and Harriet Alexander
The AFL draftee who wants to banish ‘toxic masculinity’
New Giant Ollie Hannaford was a top-20 pick in last week’s AFL draft, but he has grander goals than just the ones he kicks on the football field.
- by Marc McGowan
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Sex & relationships
‘Hell on Earth, and then some’: Lucy Wicks was subjected to years of abuse, but now the tide has turned
The former federal politician lost her voice during an abusive relationship with NSW MP Taylor Martin. Now she is back on the campaign trail.
- by Jordan Baker
Zempilas says he’s unscathed after rough week in politics
The Churchlands candidate maintained he did not lie about the polling facilitated by his former campaign manager that triggered a Liberal leadership challenge.
- by Hamish Hastie
The reason this Perth man stabbed his mother 62 times
On Friday he was sentenced to life in prison with a non-parole period of 20 years for the “ferocious attack” on his mother after consuming a psychedelic drug.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
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Crime
Person of interest declared in Maroubra woman’s death, cops hunt white car
The “extremely violent” man who led police to his partner Christine Dawson’s body has been charged with breaching an AVO in place to protect her.
- by Perry Duffin