Man to stand trial for alleged murder of woman found in Cobram home
By Charmaine Manuel
A man charged over the murder of a woman who was found dead in a Northern Victorian home has been committed to stand trial over her death.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-27/prem-kumar-murder-plea-anu-eugene-cobram/106728516
'Inadequate' jail sentence for sex worker killer increased after appeal
By Kristian Silva
Xiaozheng Lin will spend more time in prison for killing two sex workers in 2022, following an appeal by the prosecutor.
Murderer convicted of 1999 crime back in custody for breaching parole
By Jordanna Schriever
Murderer Garry Thompson has been returned to custody for 12 months for breaching his parole conditions multiple times.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-27/murderer-garry-thompson-parole-breaches/106723694
Woman questioned by police after child found dead west of Brisbane
Emergency services were called to a Lowood residence just before 11:10pm on Monday.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-26/police-launch-investigation-into-lowood-child-death/106721090
Man found not guilty of murdering Darwin mother a 'serious risk' to community
By Olivana Lathouris
Sheena Fairfield was brutally stabbed to death in the yard of her suburban home in 2022. The man charged with her murder never went to trial due to mental impairment but he could be detained for 20 years.
#Homicide #CourtOrderedMentalHealthTreatment #Courts #OlivanaLathouris
Loss - the belief in progress and the reality of experiences of loss.
* Grievance-fuelled violence at home and psychological harm reduction
"The family violence workforce is stretched in Western societies... 20 out of 38 reviewed cases of fatal family violence were "grievance-fuelled"...The Fixated Grievance Perpetrator Intervention Pilot brings together experts in forensic psychology and psychiatry, criminology, policing, perpetrator intervention and victim support."
World-first trial testing whether counterterrorism strategies can prevent domestic homicide >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-25/dv-new-trial-terrorism-domestic-violence-grievance-homicide/106658162
#violence #FamilyViolence #grievance #loss #ressentiment #precarity #masculinity #entitlement #resentment #anger #GenderBasedViolence #homicide #DV #terror #CrisisOfReproduction #crimes #HarmReduction #therapists #psychologisation
* The role of loss within society
Andreas Reckwitz 's book 'Loss, A Modern Predicament, The first comprehensive study of the role of loss within society", 2025 explains loss not only from a psychological perspective, but also from a sociological one.
"Loss has come to occupy a central position in late modernity – whether in the consequences of climate change or the entrenchment of negative expectations about the future, the ‘losers’ of post-industrial modernisation or the collective processing of ‘historical wounds’ and of who is acknowledged as the victims and perpetrators of these crimes, in a heightened psychological awareness of vulnerability, in political populism, a nostalgia for things past, or programmes of resilience."
"Loss is the bread and butter of populism." >>
https://res.cloudinary.com/suhrkamp/images/q_auto/v1742134247/151338/loss_9783518588222_sample_translation.pdf
#loss #progress #ProgressNarrative #improvement #credibility #modernity #stagnation #precariousness #experience #inequality #StatusAnxiety #SocialHierarchy #CollectiveExperiencesOfLoss #populism #nostalgia #socioanalysis #ClimateDisasters #PolyCrisis #WesternModernity #future #book
Police offer $1m reward into Newcastle cold case murders
By Bridget Murphy
The bodies of 37-year-old Joanne Teterin and 32-year-old Susan Kay were found in May 2000, and police concluded they had been bludgeoned to death.
Man charged with attempted murder and arson after double stabbing and house fire in Raceview
Police were called to an altercation at an Ipswich address on Sunday afternoon.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-25/raceview-stabbing-and-house-fire-charges/106716834
Man allegedly armed with gun shot dead by police north of Brisbane
Queensland Police said the man approached officers and made threats towards police whilst armed with a firearm, and as a result was shot.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-24/police-shooting-narangba/106715404
Police probing 70s cold cases to investigate links to knife, shovel and dress at campsite
By Giselle Wakatama
Police will review the testimony of a former youth camp manager who found a number of suspicious items in bushland around the time of multiple disappearances near Newcastle in the 1970s.
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