CANBERRA, ACT, March 13 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: This is a joint media release between the AFP and Australian Border Force An Australian citizen, who resides in Palau, is expected to face Perth Magistrates Court today (13 March 2026), charged with attempting to facilitate the procurement of a child for sexual activity overseas and using a carriage service to obtain child abuse material. Australian Border Force (ABF) officers searched the man after he ar...
CANBERRA, ACT, March 13 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: Editor's note: Images and video are available via Hightail. A Queensland man has been charged with making antisemitic posts on social media and the unlawful possession of weapons. The AFP started an investigation in September, 2025, into a series of online antisemitic comments and threats toward the Jewish community posted on the messaging platform Telegram. The AFP's National Security Investigations (N...
CANBERRA, ACT, March 13 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: A Sydney man appeared before Liverpool Local Court today (13 March, 2026) after being charged for using social media on multiple occasions to threaten and harass public officials, including a federal parliamentarian. The AFP charged the man, 37, today after an investigation into a social media comment which allegedly contained a threat to kill a federal parliamentarian. AFP investigators will allege the t...
CANBERRA, ACT, March 12 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: A Sudan-born man has been charged with allegedly failing to comply with his visa-mandated conditions. The man, 29, is set to appear beforeDandenong Magistrates' Courton 20 May, 2026, after the AFP charged him on 11 March, 2026. It will be alleged the man breached the conditions of his Commonwealth visa by failing to observe his residential curfew obligations, failing to ensure his electronic monitoring de...
CANBERRA, ACT, March 12 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: Editor's Note: Images and vision available on hightail. A Woolshed man, 42, is set to face court today (Thursday, 12 March, 2026) charged after an AFP investigation into a black flight used to smuggle two alleged Australian fugitives to Indonesia. AFP investigators attached to the North Queensland Joint Organised Crime Taskforce (JOCTF), executed search warrants in Southeast Queensland and Rockhampton yes...
CANBERRA, ACT, March 12 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: A NSW man has been charged with allegedly displaying a Nazi symbol and using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence. The man is expected to appear before Armidale Local Court on 30 March, 2026, after he was charged by the AFP on 11 March, 2026. An investigation by an AFP National Security Investigations (NSI) team began in November, 2025, following a notification of a threatening and offens...
CANBERRA, ACT, March 12 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript: Note Subjects: petrol prices, ACCC penalties for fuel retailers Natalie Barr: Fuel retailers could be slapped with a massive $100million fine for cashing in on the Middle East conflict to price‑gouge consumers. Treasurer Jim Chalmers has told service stations not to rip off drivers, warning the competition regulator will be beefing up its monitoring of unusual price spikes. The announcement follows c...
CANBERRA, ACT, March 12 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript: Note Subjects: petrol prices, increased penalties, regional fuel supplies, inflation Sarah Abo: The federal government will impose fines of up $100million for petrol stations caught intentionally ripping off customers. Karl Stefanovic: For more on this, we're joined by Treasurer Jim Chalmers in Canberra. Jim, good morning to you. Thanks for your time today. Look, how many have been fined so far and how m...
SYDNEY, March 12 -- Australian Prudential Regulation Authority issued the following media release: The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has released the Quarterly Authorised Deposit-taking Institution (ADI) Performance and the Quarterly ADI Property Exposures publications for the quarter ending 31 December 2025. APRA activated debt-to-income (DTI) limits from February 2026, restricting the share of new lending at high DTI (a DTI ratio of six or greater), with limits applying s...
CANBERRA, ACT, March 11 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following media release: The Albanese Government is taking action to help consumers get a fair go at the petrol pump, with more scrutiny and surveillance of the fuel sector, bigger penalties for misconduct, and action to shore up fuel supply. The conflict overseas shouldn't be an excuse to profit off Australians. We're putting petrol companies on notice. We won't cop big corporates treating Australian consumers like mugs. This ...