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AFP issues warning to keep kids safe online this Christmas

Are you giving the gift of technology this year? Here's what the Australian Federal Police says you need to know to keep...

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23rd Dec. 2020 12:12 PM

The Australian Federal Police is urging parents and carers to educate themselves about technology gifted to their children this holiday season. Photo: iStock.

Record busts: Organised crims caught with illicit drugs

COVID-19 may have turned our lives upside down but not the criminal world, which recorded the highest rates of busts and...

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21st Dec. 2020 8:12 AM

Drugs seized by Australian Federal Police officers in Sydney on Tuesday, July 31, 2012. Over half a tonne of drugs, including 306kg of crystal methamphetamine and 252kg of heroin were seized in an operation that resulted in seven arrests. (AAP Image/Paul Miller) NO ARCHIVING

NAMED: Man charged over alleged Bundaberg terror plot

The identity of the 29-year-old arrested by the Queensland Joint Counter Terrorism Team over an alleged Bundaberg terror...

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28th Nov. 2020 1:11 PM

James Michael Waugh is expected to face Brisbane Arrest Court today. Photo: File.

Bundaberg 'terror plot': Federal police swoop

He was allegedly planning to undertake a terrorist act in the Bundaberg region and had sought firearms training.

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28th Nov. 2020 10:11 AM

It will be alleged in court that he was planning to undertake a terrorist act in the Bundaberg region and had sought firearms training.

‘Harrowing’: Horror of exit trafficking revealed

A man faces jail after using threats, coercion and deception to force a woman and child to travel from Australia to India.

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26th Nov. 2020 5:11 AM

Bay man arrested for alleged involvement in pedophile ring

A PIALBA man has been charged as part of a nationwide operation to take down an ‘abhorrent’ paedophile ring. DETAILS:

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26th Oct. 2020 8:10 AM

CHARGED: A 40-year-old man from Pialba in Hervey Bay has been charged with possessing child exploitation material, after a nationwide investigation into child exploitation by the Australian Federal Police - Operation Molto.

Three FNQ men arrested over nationwide paedophile ring

THREE Far North Queensland men have been charged as part of a nationwide operation to take down an ‘abhorrent’ paedophile...

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23rd Oct. 2020 5:10 PM

THREE Far North Queensland men have been charged as part of a nationwide operation to take down an ‘abhorrent’ paedophile ring.

Lockyer Valley man arrested for alleged involvement in paedophile ring

A LOCKYER Valley man has been charged as part of a nationwide operation to take down an ‘abhorrent’ paedophile ring.

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23rd Oct. 2020 3:10 PM

CHARGED: A 26-YEAR-OLD man from East Innisfail, and two Cairns men, have been charged with possessing child exploitation material. Pic: Supplied

Facebook founder ‘facilitating’ child sex abuse: Dutton

Peter Dutton has opened a new federal police centre to fight child sexual exploitation and unleashed a devastating attack...

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23rd Oct. 2020 2:10 PM

Child porn blitz: 16 kids rescued, 44 men arrested

Federal police have rescued 16 children and arrested 44 men including a NSW IT consultant, a forklift driver and a retail...

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23rd Oct. 2020 1:10 PM

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