SYDNEY, April 3 -- Australian Prudential Regulation Authority issued the following media release: The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has accepted a Court Enforceable Undertaking (CEU) from Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) to address ongoing weaknesses in the bank's non-financial risk management practices and risk culture. APRA has also increased the capital add-on applied to ANZ from $750 million to $1 billion. This comes afterAPRA last yearincreased the $500 mi...
BRISBANE, Queensland, April 3 -- The Queensland Cabinet issued text of the following statement: Minister for Health and Ambulance Services The Honourable Tim Nicholls Tough new fines to extinguish illegal tobacco and vapes * The Crisafulli Government delivers on promise and introduces nation's toughest fines for shops supplying or possessing illicit tobacco and vapes. * Illegal operators to be hit with on-the-spot fines in excess of $30,000 for the supply of illicit tobacco and vapes from t...
CANBERRA, ACT, April 3 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: A Victorian man has been charged today (3 April, 2025) with allegedly threatening a Commonwealth Parliamentarian via email. The AFP charged the Ballarat man, 51, after an investigation into alleged threats made in two emails to the Parliamentarian's electoral office. The AFP allegedly traced these messages to the man's personal email account and executed a search warrant today (3 April, 2025) at his home, ...
CANBERRA, ACT, April 3 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: A southwest Sydney man has been fined $10,000 by the Downing Centre Local Court for posting an online threat towards an international flight on which he planned to travel. The man, 22, used social media to post a threat towards a Philippines-bound flight on 19 December, 2024. He boarded that same flight at Sydney Airport a few hours later as a passenger. The AFP received a referral that day about the onlin...
CANBERRA, ACT, April 3 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: A Melbourne man who gave false testimony and provided falsified evidence to the Family Court of Australia has today (3 April, 2025) been sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment. The man, now 36, will spend six months in prison, before being released from custody. The remaining 12 months of his sentence is to be served on a Recognisance Release Order, which will be suspended for three years subject to the man b...
CANBERRA, ACT, April 3 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: This is a joint media release between the Australian Federal Police and Australian Border Force (ABF) Editor's note: Images and arrest vision available via Hightail Two brothers with alleged links to international organised crime have been charged over a complex drug importation plot involving 80kg of cocaine. The men appeared before the Melbourne Magistrates Court yesterday (2 April, 2025) after the AFP ...
BRISBANE, Queensland, April 3 -- The Queensland Cabinet issued text of the following statement: Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Minister for Integrity The Honourable Deb Frecklington Big win for smaller community clubs in Queensland * Crisafulli Government delivers on election commitment to offer a lifeline to local community clubs. * Regulation change allows larger clubs to step in and merge with struggling smaller clubs, by lifting gaming machine entitlements for clubs with ...
Belconnen, ACT, April 3 -- ACT Policing issued the following media release: ACT Policing's Firearms Registry seized more than 2000 firearms following search warrant activity in two operations last month. In the first operation, following a joint investigation between ACT Policing and New South Wales Police, police seized more than 2000 firearms and firearms parts in Mitchell between 4 and 6 March 2025 due to alleged regulatory breaches. Police identified numerous breaches of the ACT Firearms ...
Belconnen, ACT, April 3 -- ACT Policing issued the following media release: Members from ACT Policing's Territory Targeting Team (TTT) commenced an investigation after receiving information about alleged illicit drug cultivation and distribution at a residence in Lyneham. About 10am yesterday (2 April 2025), TTT officers, with the help of members from AFP K9, Exhibit Management Centre and AFP Forensic Search & Imagery, executed a search warrant at the Lyneham home. On entry, officers located ...
Belconnen, ACT, April 3 -- ACT Policing issued the following media release: Early morning speeding drivers were targeted by City Station officers early today. Five drivers who were all heading east on Parkes Way towards the City were caught by a general duties team between 4.45am and 5.30am, with the highest speed of 116km/h in a 90km/h zone recorded. * A white Ford Courier utility driven by a 28-year-old Kambah man, was detected travelling 106km/h in a sign posted 90 km/h speed limit area.* ...