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In 2023 a Melbourne GP pursued legal action in the Federal Court to clarify the definition of suicide in the federal criminal code and its applicability to state-based assisted dying legislation. In November 2023 the court ruled that the law made it illegal for telehealth consultations concerning assisted dying to be conducted.
The reward for information is now up to $250,000. [114] 1994 Samantha Mizzi St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria [115] 1994 Leah Buck Williamstown, Melbourne, Victoria [116] 1995 Victoria Cafasso: Beaumaris, Tasmania: Cafasso was a tourist from Italy visiting a cousin. She went for a walk on the beach and was later found bashed and stabbed to death ...
The deadliest mass shooting in Australia. Led to the National Firearms Agreement between Australia's states, territories and federal government, mandating licenses and registration for gun owners and users, and banning semi-automatic long guns in most cases. See Gun laws in Australia. Shoobridge family murders 28 June 1997 Richmond, Tasmania
Perth, Western Australia: 7 [n 1] 0 7: A man shot and killed his wife and five children before committing suicide. [65] 30 September 1929: Palmyra, Western Australia: 3 [n 1] 4 7: A retired farmer shot and wounded four people at a house before killing two other people and himself. [66] 1 November 1928: Rockdale, New South Wales: 4 [n 1] 1 5
The Warrowen massacre was an apparent mass killing of Bunurong people by a group of Kurnai people in the vicinity of present-day Brighton, Victoria, Australia.It is dated to the early 1830s, close in time to the founding of Melbourne.
Life imprisonment is the most severe criminal sentence available to the courts in Australia.Most cases attracting the sentence are murder.It is also imposed, albeit rarely, for sexual assault, manufacturing and trafficking commercial quantities of illicit drugs, and offences against the justice system and government security.
Mersina Halvagis was a 25-year-old Melbourne woman murdered in an attack on 1 November 1997 while visiting her grandmother's grave in the Greek Orthodox section of Fawkner Cemetery in Fawkner, a northern suburb of Melbourne. [14] The alarm was raised by Halvagis's fiancé when she failed to meet with him later that day as the couple had planned ...
2018 Melbourne stabbing attack - An attack that took place in Melbourne, when Hassan Khalif Shire Ali set fire to a Holden Rodeo utility on Bourke Street in the city's Central Business District. He then stabbed three pedestrians, killing one and wounding the other two. During the attack, the Holden "exploded" from the fire.