A 26-year-old backpacker has been found in Australia, nearly two weeks after being reported missing. Carolina Wilga, a German backpacker, was found alive in a Western Australian bushland by local police, who told reporters on Friday (11 July) that she was walking on a bush track at the reserve where she first vanished.

An Australian police officer who fatally shot an Indigenous teenager during an attempted arrest in 2019 was racist and worked in an environment "with hallmarks of institutional racism", a coroner has found.

Coroner’s finding comes five years after acquitted policeman Zachary Rolfe fatally shot 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker.

A coroner said that she could not exclude the possibility that an officer’s racist attitudes contributed to the death of Kumanjayi Walker in 2019.

An SA Police officer who was due to stand trial for drug trafficking has had a last-minute change of heart – confessing to dealing cocaine while serving as a cop.

An Australian police officer who shot and killed an Indigenous teenager was a racist drawn to "high adrenaline policing", a landmark inquiry found Monday.

The police officer who killed Indigenous teenager Kumanjayi Walker in 2019 was "racist" and had an "attraction" to adrenaline-style policing, a coroner's inquest has found.

Two French women have been intercepted in Brisbane and charged over a plot to smuggle more than 30 kilograms of methamphetamine into Australia, with an estimated street value of $29 million.

The pair, who are aged 19 and 20, were stopped by Australian Border Force officers at Brisbane Airport on Tuesday last week after flying from a South-East Asian country.