Tag AFP
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Teen girl held as sex slave in Sydney
Julia Carlisle SYDNEY [AAP] A teenage girl from West Africa has been held in a Sydney home against her will and used as a sex slave for weeks before managing to escape. Police are searching for a woman hailed as... Read More →
May 19, 2017 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
AFP to get $321 million funding boost
CANBERRA [AAP] The federal government will hand the Australian Federal Police a $321 million funding boost as it moves to bolster the nation’s defences against the threat of terrorism. The multi-million-dollar package, to be announced in Tuesday’s budget, will be... Read More →
May 8, 2017 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Bernardi considers backing Labor on raids
Belinda Merhab Canberra [AAP] Conservative Liberal backbencher Cory Bernardi may support a Labor bid to keep seized NBN documents under the lock and key of parliament. Labor is confident it can prevent the Australian Federal Police from using thousands of... Read More →
August 26, 2016 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Indefinite detention on cards for terrorists
Melbourne [AAP] Legislation that allows high-risk terrorist offenders to remain detained after their jail sentences end must be introduced quickly in the wake of recent global attacks, the prime minister says. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has asked attorney-general George Brandis... Read More →
July 25, 2016 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
275kg meth found in Vic
Kaitlyn Offer Melbourne [AAP] More than a quarter-tonne of methamphetamine has been found hidden under the floorboards of three Victorian shipping containers. One Malaysian and seven Australians have been charged with drug offences after a 275kg seizure of the drug,... Read More →
July 4, 2016 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Police raids on Labor offices questioned
Canberra [AAP] The Turnbull government insists it had nothing to do with police raids on the offices of a senior Labor frontbencher and staffers. Labor has questioned the ‘quite extraordinary’ timing of the raids, coming as they did towards the... Read More →
May 20, 2016 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
AFP confirms boy, 12, on terror radar
A 12-year-old boy is on the radar of national security agencies, the Australian Federal Police have confirmed.
October 15, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Did the Bali Nine upset someone higher up the chain?
M Mizzi, Byron Bay. Members of the Bali nine were executed by Indonesia and as some have rightly pointed out this happened as a warning from the AFP, but exactly what kind of warning was it?
May 8, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
AFP refuse to apologise after Bali executions
The Australian Federal Police has insisted its entire handling of the Bali nine case was appropriate at every stage, and attacked criticism over the executions of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.
May 5, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 2 -
AFP, ASIO to front metadata inquiry
Australia's domestic spy agency is due to front a parliamentary inquiry into the government's proposed data-retention laws. Along withAFP, telcos and civil liberty groups on Friday.
January 30, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 0
