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There were 238 homicide incidents in Australia in 2013-14 compared with 307 in 1989–90. [17] From the National Australian Homicide Monitoring program report 2012: "The homicide rate has continued to decrease each year, since 1989-90. The periods 2010–2011 and 2011–2012 are the lowest homicide rate since data collection began in 1989”. [18]
Hope Forest, South Australia: 10: 0: Rampage killing by Clifford Bartholomew, who shot dead ten members of his family. [17] It is the deadliest familicide in Australian history. Whiskey Au Go Go fire: 8 March 1973 Fortitude Valley, Queensland: 15: unknown Arson attack that killed fifteen and injured many more at a nightclub. Savoy Hotel fire: 5 ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 January 2025. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of Australian people who have been convicted of serious crimes. Bank robbers Australians convicted of bank robbery ...
In Australia the second optional protocol to the ICCPR has been signed and ratified into domestic law. This is seen through the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Torture Prohibition and Death Penalty Abolition) Act 2010. The act fully abolished the death penalty and effectively ensured no state or territory is able to reintroduce it. [2]
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.
Australian law prohibits the extradition or deportation of a prisoner to another jurisdiction if they could be sentenced to death for any crime. [2] The last execution in Australia took place in 1967, when Ronald Ryan was hanged in Victoria following his conviction for killing a prison officer while escaping from Pentridge Prison.
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