The AFP is the national law enforcement agency of Australia
July 2024
Brisbane couple charged with spying for Russia in alleged attempt to access defence secrets
Brisbane couple charged with spying for Russia in alleged attempt to access defence secrets - video
June 2024
Indonesian boys, Australian jails
Indonesian boys jailed by Australia claim no translation provided in court
Minors who were locked up in adult prisons for people smuggling say they could not understand proceedings and thought they were going home
Teenager charged with planning terrorist attack after allegedly entering NSW MP’s office with ‘intention to kill’
Labor MP for Newcastle Tim Crakanthorp said he and his staff were safe and unharmed after the ‘very serious incident’
Fake wedding celebrant sentenced over five ‘invalid’ marriages in Victoria
Federal court dismisses defamation claim by AFP officers against Shane Drumgold
Australian Border Force questions three people suspected of travelling to join Israeli army
May 2024
Date-rape drug ‘bute’ increasingly linked to sexual assaults in Australia, police say
Federal police and border force say they have seized 4,200 litres of butanediol over the past three months – mostly imported from China
Police who investigated Bruce Lehrmann sue Shane Drumgold for $1.42m over critical comments
Five AFP officers say complaints in a November 2022 letter brought them into ‘public disrepute, odium, ridicule and contempt’
AFP must explain deal allowing Chinese ‘secret police’ to conduct operations in Australia, Coalition says
Opposition questions extension of bilateral security treaties amid ‘gravely concerning’ reports of activities on Australian soil
April 2024
AFP officers launch defamation case against ACT after complaint over Bruce Lehrmann’s criminal trial
The Agenda
Australia’s big encryption-busting laws have done little more than give authorities the power to ask nicely
Paul Karp
Australian Muslim leaders call out ‘questionable law enforcement tactics’ that led to arrest of minors
AFP reviewing whether police leaked material from Bruce Lehrmann’s criminal trial
Australian cities week
AFP arrest man allegedly behind failed drug plot that led to cocaine bricks on NSW beaches – video
Jeff Fenech unwittingly received packages containing drugs from alleged US trafficking group, court documents claim
March 2024
How do Australian police taskforces get strange names like Tromperie?
In NSW, you can blame a computer which generates names at random, while in the Northern Territory ‘generic categories’ deliver operations named after rivers and battleships
AFP officers mistakenly handcuffed and arrested Iraqi refugee after acting on bad tip-off
Agency says a bad tip-off led to the mistaken arrest of Nahi Al Sharify at his home in Sydney, leaving him traumatised and distraught
Asio boss defends undercover police operation targeting boy with autism
Mike Burgess says security agencies ‘don’t radicalise people’ and stands by actions of police in case of 13-year-old with Islamic State ‘fixation’
February 2024
Australia detains alleged key player in North Korean tobacco smuggling scheme after US request
Exclusive: Jin Guanghua was arrested by the AFP in Melbourne last year and is facing extradition to the US
