CANBERRA, ACT, Jan. 31 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: A Myanmar-born man is expected to appear before Brisbane Magistrates Court today (31 January, 2025), charged with allegedly failing to comply with one of his visa-mandated conditions.   The man, 47, was served a court attendance notice on 3 January, 2025, after he was located in Logan. It will be alleged the man breached a condition of his Commonwealth visa on 29 December, 2024, by contacting a...
CANBERRA, ACT, Jan. 31 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: Editor's note: Audio grabs of Commander Schneider available via Hightail The AFP-led Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE) has urged school communities to be alert to signs of children being forced to marry, with forced marriages the most reported human trafficking offence in Australia. The AFP responded to 91 reports of forced marriages in 2023-24, which represented almost 25 per cent of...
SYDNEY, Jan. 31 -- Australian Prudential Regulation Authority issued the following media release: The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has updated the APRA Connect Taxonomy Artefacts webpage with additional draft superannuation artefacts. These artefacts are available on the APRA website at APRA Connect Taxonomy Artefacts. Please address any queries to dataanalytics@apra.gov.au. Disclaimer: Curated by HT Syndication....
SYDNEY, Jan. 31 -- Australian Prudential Regulation Authority issued the following media release: The Federal Court of Australia has today dismissed the judicial review application of BUSS (Queensland) Pty Ltd (BUSSQ), which sought to set aside APRA's decision to impose additional licence conditions on BUSSQ, announced on 14 August 2024. The additional licence conditions were imposed to address prudential concerns regarding BUSSQ's fitness and propriety processes and fund expenditure managemen...
CANBERRA, ACT, Jan. 31 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: This is a joint media release between the AFP,National Anti-Scam Centre, Philippines Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission and National Bureau of Investigation Editor's note:Text message screenshot, images from investigation, and audio grabs from AFP Commander Graeme Marshall are available via Hightail Authorities have texted more than 5000 potential victims in Australia to warn they may have been t...
CANBERRA, ACT, Jan. 31 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: A Sydney man is expected to appear in Downing Centre Local Court today (31 January, 2025) charged with four child abuse material-related offences and drug possession. AFP Child Protection investigators arrested the man, 58, yesterday (30 January, 2025) at a Sydney CBD hotel. The AFP allegedly identified the man while investigating a report from the United States National Center for Missing and Exploited Ch...
CANBERRA, ACT, Jan. 31 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: A man was sentenced to three years' imprisonment by the Perth District Court yesterday (30 January, 2025) after he tried to traffic drugs while in a WA detention centre. The District Court has ordered the man, 30, serve 18 months in custody before he will be released on a recognisance order to be of good behaviour. The man smuggled a variety of border-controlled drugs, contained in two small packages, into...
CANBERRA, ACT, Jan. 31 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: A Melbourne man is expected to appear before the Melbourne Magistrates' Court today (31 January, 2025) charged with online child abuse-related offences. The Victorian Joint Anti Child Exploitation Team (JACET) charged the man on 26 January, 2025, after Australian Border Force (ABF) officers allegedly found child abuse material on the man's mobile phone. The man, 49, arrived in Australia on a flight from th...
CANBERRA, ACT, Jan. 31 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: A Sudan-born man has appeared before Blacktown Local Court today (31 January, 2025), charged with allegedly failing to comply with his visa-mandated curfew conditions. The man, 29, was charged today (31 January, 2025), after he was located in Sydney. It will be alleged the man breached one of the conditions of his Commonwealth visa on multiple occasions since 21 January, 2025, by failing to abide by his re...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Jan. 31 -- The Queensland Cabinet issued text of the following statement: Published Yesterday at 10:23 AM Deputy Premier, Minister for State Development, Infrastructure and Planning and Minister for Industrial Relations The Honourable Jarrod Bleijie A Fresh Start for Queensland: Local community consultation rights made permanent on wind farm developments * Election commitment to make wind farms impact assessable delivered * Mandatory community consultation now required...