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In comparison to other English-speaking countries, such as New Zealand, United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States, Australia in 2020 had an overall crime rate of 0.87 per 100,000 people, while the overall crime rate in North America was higher, with 2.1 per 100,000 in Canada and 6.5 per 100,000 in the United States. The homicide rate in ...
In 1994, Charles III then Prince of Wales, visited Australia. He was giving a speech in Darling harbour during the Australia day celebrations. David Kang ran up to the Prince and fired two blanks before falling onto the ground; he was arrested by multiple police officers. The Prince was unhurt and was ushered off the podium. [72]
Pursuant to the so-called "Bloody Code", by the 1770s some 222 crimes in Britain carried the death penalty. [12] Almost all of these were crimes against property, including such offences as the stealing of goods worth over 5 shillings, the cutting down of a tree, the theft of an animal, even the theft of a rabbit from a warren.
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No-one was ever officially charged of the crime. [15] 1967 Mima Joan McKim-Hill: Biloela, Queensland: McKim-Hill was a 21-year-old Australian woman who was abducted, sexually assaulted and strangled on 9 March 1967. [16] [17] McKim-Hill left Rockhampton at 8:00am on 9 March 1967, and travelled south to Calliope. [17]
Victoria did so in 1975, South Australia in 1976, and Western Australia in 1984. New South Wales abolished the death penalty for murder in 1955, and for all crimes in 1985. In 2010, the Commonwealth Parliament passed legislation prohibiting the re-establishment of capital punishment by any state or territory. [ 1 ]