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Let's see how gun control is working for us

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I dont think gun control is working at all, and criminals love it!

Life Downunder as we now know it!


Father-of-three Shane Ransome attacked, tyres slashed and window smashed in senseless terror against Christies Beach family

Andrew Dowdell
The Advertiser
June 07, 2014 10:51PM

A CHRISTIES Beach family is living in dread after a father-of-three’s head was repeatedly stomped on and a large rock was thrown through their front window in a series of senseless attacks.

Doctors told Shane Ransome he was lucky to survive the brutal attack when three men set on him outside his Eliza*beth Rd home on May 22.

Mr Ransome, 47, was putting out his rubbish at night when he made a comment to three men who were upturning his neighbours’ bins.

His wife Natalie said she was shocked by the unprovoked and potentially deadly attack.

“He was hit from behind and fell onto the pavers and they proceeded to kick or stomp on his head — nothing else, just his head. They wanted to kill him,” she said.


Mrs Ransome said doctors told her husband he would likely have died if not for a metal plate in his face from a car crash when he was a child.

Mr Ransome, who had started a new job a week earlier, still suffers concussion symptoms and may need plastic surgery once the heavy swelling in his face subsides.

However, that was far from the end of the family’s ordeal.

Last Thursday night, the same men woke the family by yelling abuse at the home they have lived in without incident for 10 years.

Then about 10pm on Friday the group returned and tried to get Mr Ransome to go outside.

About three hours later they returned again, slashing the tyres of the family’s car and hurling a large slab of slate through the front window, missing Mrs Ransome’s head by about 30cm.


Mrs Ransome said she was disappointed that police did not arrive for 2½ hours after she phoned 000.

The men are believed to be in their early 20s. One had unkempt hair or dreadlocks and another wore a light-coloured hoodie. Anyone with information on the identities of the men should contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or at sa.crimestoppers.com.au
 

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Teenager shot dead after pub clash during State of Origin

A NIGHT in the pub watching the State of Origin rugby league game ended with a teenager shot dead and a man charged with his murder.

Police will allege that 18-year-old Jed Coates was fatally shot in the chest on his way home from the Colyton Hotel in Sydney’s west, where’d been involved in a fight during NSW’s Origin win.

Police and paramedics arrived at Nevada Avenue, Colyton, shortly before 11pm and gave the young man CPR before taking him to Westmead Hospital. He died a short time later.

Police say they arrested a 21-year-old Colyton man at a house on the same street as the shooting just after 3am.

He was charged with murder and appeared later at Mount Druitt Local Court.

Detective Inspector Barry Vincent alleged Mr Coates was gunned down following an earlier incident at the Colyton Hotel involving both men and a number of other people.

“It'll be alleged that there has (then) been an altercation between the two persons here in the street,” he told reporters. “We believe an incident predicated what happened here in the street.” Det Insp Vincent would not confirm how many other people were there when Mr Coates was shot, but said police had received information from witnesses.

Neighbours reported hearing an argument in the street just before the incident.

Crystal Nikua, 32, said her daughter heard a loud noise outside but thought it was fireworks to celebrate NSW's Origin series win over Queensland.

“We didn't think anything of it and came outside and saw all the police cars,” she said.

“It wasn't until this morning that we found out it was a murder.”

Mr Coates's family were told of his death overnight.

“Obviously it's a traumatic incident for the family,” Det Insp Vincent said.

Dean White, a friend of Mr Coates, held back tears as he came to terms with the news.

“He was a good bloke, with a big heart,” he told Macquarie Radio.
 

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Holy Moly DW and Haz - from what I have read it seems to me that your government seems to ignore the fact that evil people exist, people do evil things, and giving the bad guys the benefit of the doubt will make them be contributors to society. A few Aussies have been trolling some of our gun forums and say that your gun control laws have all but eliminated gun crime Down Under. Maybe there haven't been any large scale massacres down there, but I'd be worried about being on the streets at night. It's too bad - I traveled to Australia a few years back and I had a wonderful experience.

At least some of the antis here in the US are aware that bad people will do bad things - it is just convincing them that making it harder to get a gun is like making it harder to get a driver's license will stop drunk driving.

How does New Zealand compare?
 

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Holy Moly DW and Haz - from what I have read it seems to me that your government seems to ignore the fact that evil people exist, people do evil things, and giving the bad guys the benefit of the doubt will make them be contributors to society. A few Aussies have been trolling some of our gun forums and say that your gun control laws have all but eliminated gun crime Down Under. Maybe there haven't been any large scale massacres down there, but I'd be worried about being on the streets at night. It's too bad - I traveled to Australia a few years back and I had a wonderful experience.

At least some of the antis here in the US are aware that bad people will do bad things - it is just convincing them that making it harder to get a gun is like making it harder to get a driver's license will stop drunk driving.

How does New Zealand compare?

Hi Mate,

Its no where near as bad in N.Z. where firearms laws are no where near as tough as here.

You wrote;
"A few Aussies have been trolling some of our gun forums and say that your gun control laws have all but eliminated gun crime Down Under."
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Those trolls live in fairy land, not down under, and especially no where near Sydney, a city of 5 million people, and so far over 350 crime related shootings this year alone.

For example, last night;

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Home riddled with bullets in drive-by shooting at Bossley Park

NAOMI WHITE
The Daily Telegraph
June 20, 2014 6:34AM

FOUR people had an incredible escape after eight shots were fired into a western Sydney home overnight.

At least five bullet holes were visible in the front of the two storey brick home on Boronia Ave, Bossley Park this morning.
Two holes could be seen on one side of the home’s double garage and two had been fired through the flyscreen of a second storey window, with one hitting the back wall of that room.

Another shot was fired into a window near the front door.

Police said two men in dark clothing fired the shots about 10pm on Thursday night before fleeing in a maroon car towards Restwell St.
They had last night set up a crime scene at the home while officers from Operation Talon and forensics officers investigated the scene.

It is the third shooting incident this week, following on from the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Jed Coates after an argument in a Colyton pub on Wednesday night.

A man was also shot in the buttocks in Balmain on Tuesday night."
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Holy Moly DW and Haz - from what I have read it seems to me that your government seems to ignore the fact that evil people exist, people do evil things, and giving the bad guys the benefit of the doubt will make them be contributors to society. A few Aussies have been trolling some of our gun forums and say that your gun control laws have all but eliminated gun crime Down Under. Maybe there haven't been any large scale massacres down there, but I'd be worried about being on the streets at night. It's too bad - I traveled to Australia a few years back and I had a wonderful experience.

At least some of the antis here in the US are aware that bad people will do bad things - it is just convincing them that making it harder to get a gun is like making it harder to get a driver's license will stop drunk driving.

How does New Zealand compare?

All police agencies in the country are currently running a major operation targeting illegal firearms. So far they've turned up around 100 - mostly rifles and shotguns. There are an estimated 250,000 illegal firearms in Sydney alone, so it likely won't make a difference. The main issue is, they're also targeting law-abiding firearms owners with increased safe storage checks to make sure everyone is in compliance with the laws, which 99.95% would be, instead of increasing border security checks, where a lot of drugs and weapons are smuggled in. Quite a few people think another round of firearms restrictions are on the horizon. I'd say that's pretty likely.

Maybe there haven't been any large scale massacres down there, but I'd be worried about being on the streets at night. It's too bad - I traveled to Australia a few years back and I had a wonderful experience.

Where did you go to? There are still plenty of nice areas, but I'd say Australia is a better place to go for a holiday, not live. Things in my area have definitely declined over the past few years.

Those trolls live in fairy land, not down under, and especially no where near Sydney, a city of 5 million people, and so far over 350 crime related shootings this year alone.

The criminals seem to be having no issues getting firearms there. In my city, shootings often don't make the news (I've heard of three near me in the past week, none made the news or Internet), so the problem is worse than what the majority think. I read that there are an estimated 1 to 3 people killed or injured by guns in the Sydney metro area per day; no idea about shootings with no injuries.

I'm sure New Zealand has shootings, but their crime seems very tame compared to ours. They have a small population however (5 million to our 23), but the average citizen is able to own most of the guns that we banned, and you don't hear about people going on rampages. From what I understand, NZ's laws are slightly better than Canada's, and I believe both countries have fairly moderate overall crime.
 

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All police agencies in the country are currently running a major operation targeting illegal firearms. So far they've turned up around 100 - mostly rifles and shotguns. There are an estimated 250,000 illegal firearms in Sydney alone, so it likely won't make a difference. The main issue is, they're also targeting law-abiding firearms owners with increased safe storage checks to make sure everyone is in compliance with the laws, which 99.95% would be, instead of increasing border security checks, where a lot of drugs and weapons are smuggled in. Quite a few people think another round of firearms restrictions are on the horizon. I'd say that's pretty likely.

One would think that targeting the point of importation would make it easier to track illegal firearms. In Mexico firearms ownership is all but illegal and they are very aggressive in prosecuting those who bring weapons across the border, even if crossing from the US is unintentional. That's not to say things south of our border are all wonderful - the drug cartels make quite a ruckus and the Mexican military is deployed along all highways near the border with the US. Targeting those who have done their due diligence in abiding by the laws, regardless of how strict they are will not stop gun crime.

Where did you go to? There are still plenty of nice areas, but I'd say Australia is a better place to go for a holiday, not live. Things in my area have definitely declined over the past few years.

I traveled to Sydney (did all of the touristy things one would expect when visiting the city - the Opera House, Sydney Bridge, the landing site, Bondi, etc.), I spent a few days with an Aussie family near Newcastle, spent a couple weeks in Darwin and the upper NT, and then hopped over to Cairns for a week. I went back a year later and saw Brisbane and the Gold Coast. The Northern Territory I'd say was my favorite area. Which part of AUS are you in?

The criminals seem to be having no issues getting firearms there. In my city, shootings often don't make the news (I've heard of three near me in the past week, none made the news or Internet), so the problem is worse than what the majority think. I read that there are an estimated 1 to 3 people killed or injured by guns in the Sydney metro area per day; no idea about shootings with no injuries.

Shame - in my city (Seattle) we hear about one a week. Washington State has Shall Issue concealed carry, unrestricted open carry, and the only weapon you can't own is a machine gun. Our crime rate is lower than many gun control happy cities back east like Chicago, DC, Baltimore, etc.

I'm sure New Zealand has shootings, but their crime seems very tame compared to ours. They have a small population however (5 million to our 23), but the average citizen is able to own most of the guns that we banned, and you don't hear about people going on rampages. From what I understand, NZ's laws are slightly better than Canada's, and I believe both countries have fairly moderate overall crime.

New Zealand is a gorgeous country. Their firearms laws seem pretty straightforward; as long as you have a firearm on their approved list and the appropriate import permit, things are pretty self explanatory. Canada's laws are obviously much tighter than those here in the US, but I'd rather deal with their laws than some states in the US. In New York it is a felony to bring a handgun into the state without a NY license (and they don't issue to those who don't live in NY).
 
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Did you like Sydney? I never cared for it. The Gold Coast isn't bad, I much prefer the hinterland nearby, though. It's beautiful out there. I'm in Melbourne, which is apparently the most livable city in the world (don't know how they came to that conclusion), but I'm hopefully getting out of here soon.

New Zealand has fairly sensible firearms laws. I think our laws should have been modeled on theirs, but instead they overdid it with legislation that didn't reduce crime.
 

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Did you like Sydney? I never cared for it. The Gold Coast isn't bad, I much prefer the hinterland nearby, though. It's beautiful out there. I'm in Melbourne, which is apparently the most livable city in the world (don't know how they came to that conclusion), but I'm hopefully getting out of here soon.

New Zealand has fairly sensible firearms laws. I think our laws should have been modeled on theirs, but instead they overdid it with legislation that didn't reduce crime.

I like Sydney better than many large US cities. You couldn't pay me enough to live in Los Angeles or New York. Seattle is wonderful because though you are in a populated metro area, drive an hour in any direction and you are in the great outdoors with nary a soul in sight. Didn't the areas around Melbourne have some really bad fires a couple of years back? Where will you want to head off to?

I would say that New Zealand's firearms laws are sensible when compared to Australia, but it is still obnoxiously difficult when compared to the US. Self-defense, though not technically illegal, would put you in dire legal and financial straits. The "proof you have a legitimate reason" is what annoys me. That "reason" is at the discretion of the person reviewing your application.

I would say however, that whatever New Zealand is doing - between legality, culture, and attitudes - it works for them. People in the US want the authorities to stand up and stop the madness before it begins, but often times even when they are involved, they do nothing. Much like what happened in Santa Barbara a couple weeks back. Health care (mental health) is a joke here. Our background check system doesn't even work as advertised.
 

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I've heard good things about Seattle. I've heard LA is a dump, but I'd still like to check it out. I'd love to see NYC. Yeah, about five years there were fires all around the state. 170-odd people died and over 2,000 homes were destroyed. Worst natural disaster in AU history. I'm looking at moving to a town in country Victoria. I've lived there on and off before, but jobs aren't exactly plentiful up there, so I may have to reconsider. I've lived in Melbourne most of my life and never really liked it. Cost of living is becoming increasingly ridiculous, something you may have noticed about Sydney. Things in general around here have declined.

NZ's laws would probably seem quite draconian for people from the US. The process to acquire longarms in NZ seems more vigorous than my state, but that wouldn't bother me. Handguns are very difficult to obtain here, and I think it's the same in NZ, unfortunately. Even so, I'd take what they've got to what we have here. I said earlier that Canada's laws are worse than NZ's, but I didn't factor in that self-defence isn't a valid reason for owning a firearm in NZ. I think Canada has the same "genuine reason" deal, but self-defence is recognized. I'd say Canada has it over NZ then.

Another member on here showed me a picture of a flyer that our government sent out when owning a firearm to defend yourself became illegal. http://forum.opencarry.org/forums/s...-in-Victoria&p=2068795&viewfull=1#post2068795 Pretty sad, really.

We have a good mental health system here, which I think has been a large contributor in stopping mass shootings, and not stricter gun control. I think the same would work for the US.
 

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Shots fired into house - Bossley Park

Shots fired into house/car - Greenfied Park

Shots fired into house - Bankstown

Man shot dead - Raywood

Man shot at - Elizabeth North

Shots fired - Stuarts Point

Victoria gun crime up 30% in last decade

Goodwood man wounded in shotgun shooting

Three properties targeted in Melbourne drive-by shootings

Sydney man shot execution style

A Sydney father-of-four who was shot in the back of the head and dumped in bushland may have been killed by organised crime figures whom he had become involved with, police say.

Homicide detectives said John Gasovski was shot once in an "execution style" killing and his fully-clothed body was dumped in Illawarra bushland.

A park ranger found his body off Jamberoo Mountain Road early on Sunday morning but police have yet to recover the murder weapon.

Man shot in Sydney's inner-west

Police were called to Foy Street in the inner-west suburb of Balmain after reports of a shooting at about 8pm last night.

They scoured the area and found a 27-year-old man with a bullet wound on his buttocks.

He was taken to hospital in a stable condition and is expected to live.

Police say two people are believed to have sped away in a Mazda stolen from the scene, with the registration BJP64A.

The full circumstances of the shooting - the latest in a very long line across the city (although most have occurred in the west and southwest, not the inner-west) - remain unclear.

It's being investigated by Strike Force Talon - the operation set up to combat street gun crime.

Man jailed over Adelaide bikie shooting

A Hells Angels associate involved in a terrifying Adelaide home invasion where a rival's young son was shot has been jailed for at least five years.

Judge Gordon Barrett said while initially sceptical about the claim Arron James Cluse had severed ties with the gang, he now believed 'time will tell'.

In February, the District Court judge found Cluse, 24, guilty of aggravated serious criminal trespass and two aggravated counts of endangering life in September 2011.

The then prominent Finks bikie, Mark Sandery, who lived at the targeted house with his partner and four sons, was out when windows were smashed, the front door kicked in and his son, 11, shot twice in the leg.

The judge found Cluse was one of those who smashed windows, finding him guilty on the basis that he was part of a joint enterprise aimed at striking fear into the occupants.

On Thursday, he jailed Cluse for 11 years, which includes time for a drug offence.

Man shot - Tweed Heads

A YOUNG man is in hospital after an altercation between a group of men ended in gunfire at Tweed Heads early this morning.

Five men charged over Banora Point shootings

Farmer fires warning shots at police Bye-bye guns.

[video=youtube;FAf1DhA-g0c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAf1DhA-g0c[/video]

Man stabbed to death - Ringwood

A woman has been arrested over the fatal stabbing of a man at a house in Melbourne's east.

Woman arrested over Morwell homicide

A bloodied pick-axe has been seized by police and a 19-year-old woman is under arrest after a murder of a young man in Morwell.

Sydney man granted bail on airport murder

The former bikie boss accused of murdering a young rival during a brawl at Sydney Airport has been granted bail by a Supreme Court judge.

Women charged with planning Pendle Hill fatal shooting

Two women have been charged with planning the murder of a man who was shot dead in the driveway an apartment block in Sydney's west.

The women, aged 23 and 27, will face Fairfield Local Court on Wednesday charged over the death of 27-year-old Raymond Pasnin in Pendle Hill on October 30 last year.

72-year-old man charged with murder

A 72-year-old Gold Coast man has been charged with murder, following the alleged stabbing death of his wife in their Southport home on Friday morning.

Community shocked by stabbing murder of their doctor

THE stabbing murder of a much-loved country doctor has sent shockwaves through the Blue Mountains community of Lithgow where her three orphaned children are being comforted by family and friends.

Flowers and messages of support flooded the clinic where Leonie Geldenhuys worked as a GP.

Her body was discovered by her two teenage sons on Tuesday while police later found the body of her estranged husband at a nearby property.

Police are treating the tragedy as a murder-suicide.

Murdered man's car found on Gold Coast

A missing car belonging to a suspected murder victim has been found on the Gold Coast.

Shaun Barker was reported missing by his family in January, having last been seen at a service station in the Gold Coast suburb of Broadbeach on December 10.

Forestry workers found a skull off Cooloola Coast Road in Tin Can Bay - about 300km north of the Sunshine Coast - on April 10 and forensic examinations identified it as Mr Barker's.



Now for some pro-gun news. Gun ownership continues to rise in NSW, with Port Macquarie, a city with 40,000 people, seeing an increase in gun-ownership. Statistics show there are 1874 firearms license holders in the city (no idea on no. of firearms), which accounts for 50% of all gun owners on the Mid-North Coast (Pop:300k, license holders:4.1k). Apparently there are 59 gun owners in the Sydney CBD as well; quite surprising. Hopefully the trend continues.
 
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David Leyonhjelm: Trouble shooter
< http://www.theherald.com.au/story/2382121/david-leyonhjelm-trouble-shooter/?cs=7>
By Deoborah Snow
June 28, 2014, 3 a.m.
"A pro-gun libertarian who believes government should have as little role as possible in society, senator-elect David Leyonhjelm is about to have a critical say in Australia's future direction.

David Leyonhjelm peers over the top of his glasses at the well-heeled audience filling an auditorium at conservative Sydney think-tank The Centre for Independent Studies. The Tuesday evening crowd laps up his message: ever smaller government, lower taxes, less regulation. He cites John Locke, the 17th-century British philosopher, arguing that there are only three proper roles for government: protection of life, liberty and private property. "Nothing else," says Leyonhjelm, approvingly.

There are a few nervous rustles when the little-known senator-elect touches on gun laws, questioning why "the government should have all the guns and the rest of us have none". But with his high-domed forehead, deliberate manner and reassuring voice, Leyonhjelm manages to come across as a model of reason, albeit of the dry economic kind. What they don't hear this late May evening is Leyonhjelm describing John Howard, as he does to Good Weekend, as a "dirt-bag". They don't hear him rail against the former Liberal leader as a "bastard", and an "idiot" for turning up in a bullet-proof vest to front a rally of incensed gun owners in Sale, Victoria, in 1996, after Howard slapped a ban on semi-automatic rifles and pump-action shot guns in the wake of Martin Bryant's bloody rampage through Port Arthur.

"All the people at [Sale that day] were the same as me," Leyonhjelm tells me, his light-blue eyes blazing. "Everyone of those people in that audience hated [Howard's] guts. Every one of them would have agreed he deserved to be shot. But not one of them would have shot him. Not one." He found it offensive, he adds, that Howard "genuinely thought he couldn't tell the difference between people who use guns for criminal purposes, and people like me". What personally outraged Leyonhjelm was having to surrender much of his private collection, at first rifles and later some pistols, when the bans were extended. "I had lots of semi-automatic rifles," he says. "I had an M1 Garand, M1 Carbine, the AR-15, the FN FAL, a Rasheed semi-auto and a Norinco ... I had to relinquish them all.”

Prior to the compulsory federal buyback, he'd kept the cherished weapons in his attic and "every now and then I would take them out and pat them ... It was a big thing not being allowed to have them any more. It was no solace to know I was getting paid money [to hand them back]. It was an insult. There I was, being presumed to be unsafe because some nutter had got himself hold of a semi-auto in Tasmania.”

To this day, he won't attend a function if Howard is going to be in the room. Leyonhjelm is a keen target- shooter, a member of rifle and pistol clubs in Sydney. But something more underpins this outrage. He believes Howard's gun buyback left us "a nation of defenceless victims". As he told Australian Hunting Podcast late last year, "The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun ... and when seconds count, police are minutes away.”

The 62-year-old Leyonhjelm and his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) remain unknown to the vast majority of Australian voters. So far, he says, he's been "the registered officer, the treasurer, the website manager, the chief cook and bottle washer" for the LDP, and "the guy writing most of the policies". But his recent election as a senator for NSW means the LDP has hit a financial jackpot, with more than $1 million of public funds flowing into its coffers, enabling him to hire six aides, including a former federal Treasury official, and to soon move to new offices in Sydney's Birkenhead Point.

Unlike several other minor party newbies also set on July 1 to take their Senate places - who, with him, will hold the balance of power - Leyonhjelm is no political ingénue. He has degrees in law and veterinary science, and an MBA. He's a skilled communicator, who's been penning columns in the rural press for decades and has a column in The Australian Financial Review. He's a veteran of party backrooms, hopping over the decades from Young Labor (as a student), to the ALP, the Liberal Party and the Shooters and Fishers Party before taking over the LDP in 2006-7. He is the controlling force in at least two other minor parties, the Smokers' Rights Party and the Outdoor Recreation Party. And he has relatively deep pockets; he and his key lieutenant, Peter Whelan, poured hundreds of thousands of their own money into the LDP before public funding came good recently. Beneath the LDP's sugar-coated title (Leyonhjelm recently acknowledged that "we have got a nice-sounding name, it sounds reassuring") is a libertarian belief system better known in the US, where such ideas - rooted in a deep distrust of the state - inspired the first incarnation of the anti-taxing, small government Tea Party.

His conviction that government should get out of our lives makes him ultra-dry on economic matters - arguing, for instance, that the state should not employ teachers, doctors or nurses, as these services can be privately delivered. But it leads him to positions on social issues that might be regarded as wildly progressive. He favours gay marriage, legalising marijuana (except for children), open slather for refugees who can pay their way, and voluntary euthanasia. All these things, he maintains, should be a matter of individual choice.

He despises the organic food movement for its "assumptions of moral superiority". But perhaps his greatest loathing is reserved for the Greens, who he says should be charged with "crimes against humanity" for their opposition to genetically modified foods, such as rice strains that could help combat vitamin A deficiency in Third World children. Prior to splitting with the Liberal Party in 1996, Leyonhjelm was already gravitating to the Shooters and Fishers Party (against Liberal Party rules he was a member of both for a year). He became, for five years, the Shooters' chairman. But that association imploded in 2004 when he had a bitter falling out with the party's then central figure, John Tingle, and most of its executive. Thus began a saga featuring more failed alliances than the blood-spattered fantasy epic Game of Thrones.

I didn't have to go far looking for Leyonhjelm's political enemies. After two phone calls, plenty came looking for me. John Tingle, the former broadcaster who served in the NSW upper house as the Shooters representative for 11 years, volunteers that Leyonjhelm's nickname inside the party was Klink, after the German kommandant in the TV comedy Hogan's Heroes. "Putting David in as chairman of the party was probably the worst mistake we ever made," Tingle says. "We lost a substantial number of members during his tenure, and several branches. He seemed to show contempt for what you would call the political cannon fodder; he treated the membership as simply a group of people who were there to do what he told them." Tingle says the party's management committee eventually pushed Leyonhjelm out of the chairman's job, on a vote of 26 to 4, and asked him to "show cause" why he shouldn't be expelled: "He did not renew his membership.”

Leyonhjelm retorts that the branches atrophied because Tingle left them little to do, that the former broadcaster had ran a "cult of personality" and didn't want to share the limelight. And he maintains the Shooters were upset with him because he ran federal pro-shooting candidates under the banner of the Outdoor Recreation Party in 2004, after discovering the Shooters' own federal registration had lapsed. Whatever his justifications, Leyonhjelm's breach with the Shooters had a number of knock-on effects. He was turfed off the Federation of Hunting Clubs. Soon after, then NSW state minister for primary industries, Ian Macdonald, dumped him from the NSW Game Council, at the request of other members. Bill Shelton, one-time president of the Sporting Shooters' Association of Australia, says the SSAA ended up not wanting a bar of him, either. "He had an absolute charming manner until he infiltrated whatever he wanted to infiltrate," says Shelton. "Then once he was inside the organisation or part thereof, he was an absolute control nut." (Leyonhjelm rejects this, saying "I never came remotely close to running the SSAA, nor did I attempt to.") Trouble opened up on another front in 2010, when Leyonhjelm and his national executive clashed with the then-head of the South Australian chapter of the LDP, Chris Steele. Steele says he wanted to run LDP candidates in the state election, and raise funds locally to support them, but his push for a degree of autonomy was blocked by Leyonhjelm and then national chairman Peter Whelan. "They basically said, 'Get stuffed and if you don't like it we will kick you out and you can go and form your own party', " Steele claims. "He is a libertarian on the outside, but the way he operates is like an authoritarian Marxist." Leyonhjelm says Steele's dispute was with the whole national executive of the LDP, not just himself, and that it was over the retention of membership fees.

In 2013, Leyonhjelm fell out with the Sex Party in Victoria, over what they claim was his duplicitous behaviour in a failed preference swap deal for that year's federal poll. As agreed, the Sex Party gave him their preferences in NSW. But he never delivered his party's preferences in Victoria in return, claiming his fax was malfunctioning on the morning he was meant to send the relevant instructions to the Victorian office of the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC). A disbelieving Sex Party demanded Leyonhjelm make his fax records available for a lawyer to examine. Sex Party spokesman Robbie Swan says these proved the machine was working before, and after, the time Leyonhjelm says he couldn't get through to the relevant number. But Leyonhjelm tells Good Weekend the clock on the fax machine was faulty. Then he says his partner, Amanda, dialled the wrong number, and adds there was a paper jam. "It's a 'dog ate my homework' excuse," fumes one source, who watched the saga unfold.

Robbie Swan says if Leyonhjelm had honoured his end of the pact, then the Sex Party would have got Victoria's last Senate spot, not the hapless Ricky Muir of the Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party. Says Swan: "I don't think you can trust him ... I wrote [to the AEC] and argued that if it is illegal for someone not to vote, why isn't it illegal for someone like David Leyonhjelm to completely dud another party and send thousands of votes into the dustbin?"

Glenn Druery, the man who perfected the art of preference horse-trading among the minor parties, has also taken aim at Leyonhjelm, despite once running as an LDP candidate. Leyonhjelm told a parliamentary committee hearing earlier this year that Druery was a "policy-free zone" who acted "like an utter bastard" in recent preference negotiations. In response, Druery tells Good Weekend, "David Leyonhjelm has probably secretly written the book How to Lose Friends and Influence Nobody. The irony is that he is opposed to government spending and government intervention, yet he puts his hand out and takes $1 million-plus in electoral funding plus all the perks of office.”

Leyonjhelm's long-standing business friend, Horticulture Australia chief John Lloyd, insists the man he dines with several times a year is "loyal and honest. If David has a flaw it's that he can't do anything but tell you how he sees it ... I value that in a friend. But whoever coined the phrase 'Someone who doesn't suffer fools gladly' had a picture of David in front of him.”

Along with firearms, Leyonjhelm's enthusiasms include his powerful Triumph Speed Triple 1050 motorbike - and cats. "She's a lovely girl," he croons, cradling the undisputed queen of his four felines, a showy Birman called Tiffany. This favoured animal regularly commutes with him and Amanda to their farm six hours west of Sydney. It's in rough country, overrun with re-growth wattle, but they have built a comfortable cottage on it. He keeps it to "get away", for target practice, ammunition load-testing, and the odd spot of hunting (pigs, not goats - "I had a pet goat when I was a kid").

He met Amanda, a slight blonde with a wary but not unfriendly manner, at a house party playing Trivial Pursuit 30 years ago. They've never formally tied the knot. "We describe ourselves as married - we don't need a piece of paper from the government to say it," he says.

Inside the three-storey Mediterranean-style duplex they've built in Sydney's inner-west, there are views over a landscaped garden with a pool and large water feature running down one side, and Iron Cove in the distance. The living and kitchen areas have the swept-clean feel of a furniture showroom: white leather sofas, timber floors, several colour co-ordinated ceramic vases on a sideboard. The only signs of personal detritus are pieces of a fiendishly complex jigsaw puzzle (Amanda's) strewn across the glass-topped dining table. It features pigs flying across a blue sky. Leyonhjelm, a diabetic who has to take frequent snacks, tells me his family name is Swedish in origin and translates roughly as "lion on a helmet" . The Swedish Leyonhjelms were aristocracy and he still occasionally gets letters from Europe addressed to the "Right Honourable Baron".

His childhood was marred by parental discord and lack of money. "It was relatively dysfunctional", he says. His father, Bryan, ran a small mixed dairy farm just outside the Victorian town of Heywood, and the family struggled financially. Leyonhjelm, the oldest of four children, trapped rabbits for meat to bring in extra cash, and later worked in town in a shoe shop. "Even affording the school uniform - the tie, the blazer, the pants and so forth - it was quite a struggle to get them," he recalls.

Leyonhjelm's father walked out when he was 15, and his mother, Jean, moved the children to Dandenong. Leyonhjelm no longer communicates with his father, brother or his two sisters. "I think I'm the only sane one - my mother thinks that might be the case, too." Leyonhjelm senior (who went on to marry three more times) was "strict", but the son denies this planted the seeds of his libertarian beliefs. "I was probably more formed by lack of money and having to make my own way, as much as anything," he says. After the split, money problems worsened and Jean worked at several low-paid jobs to support the family.

But a friend from Dandenong High School, Ian Meyer, says troubles at home were never discussed. Meyer recalls his school buddy as an outstanding student who loathed competitive team sport and had a penchant for challenging his English teacher. Otherwise, he was "like most young blokes, happy to go to parties, join in the fun generally".

After the pair left school, Leyonhjelm won a scholarship to study vet science at Melbourne University and he and Meyer shared a flat in St Kilda, later moving to a house in the suburbs. Meyer found him a highly compatible housemate, though he was puzzled about the .22 he saw once in the cupboard. "He has always been keen on guns," says Meyer. "I still struggle to see how that fits in.”

Leyonhjelm had refused to register for the draft to fight in Vietnam and he and Meyer were drawn to Labor and its then leader Gough Whitlam because of ALP opposition to the war. Leyonhjelm signed up to Young Labor, claims to have pored over the works of Marx, Engels and Lenin, and became friends with the man who would later become a prominent state Labor treasurer, Rob Jolly. He smoked the odd joint. He also supported the passionate campaign for abortion rights being run by Dr Bertram Wainer. These issues "made me realise that governments are nasty, big bastards of things, and they can overstep the boundary big-time".

In his mid-20s, he left Australia to work as a vet in the UK, exploring Europe and eventually doing a truck tour through Africa. He wound up in what was then Rhodesia, again working as vet. Here, the patients were a little more exotic, among them a baby leopard and biting monkeys. Africa turned him off "socialism" for good. "It was meant to be flowering in a million villages. Well, it wasn't true, the people were desperately poor.”

After returning to Australia in late 1979, Leyonhjelm worked for an animal health pharmaceutical company before setting up his own, commercially successful, marketing consultancy. He'd discovered that "working for a large multinational corporation was not suited to my personality. I'm not a very good employee."

He also joined the army reserve as a trainee officer, but didn't like "being told what to do" there, either. What he did like was shooting off M60 machine guns. "That is real good fun," he says, face alight. "Shedding all those bullets at once, making a giant racket shooting a full auto is like ..." - he pauses, searching for an equivalent delight - "... like eating a lot of chocolate." He is also into pistol shooting, which he picked up when he and Amanda lived briefly in Tasmania. Its pleasures, he maintains, are not dissimilar to those of golf: "They try to get a ball into a tiny little hole a long way off; I try to get a bullet in a tiny little spot a long way off.”

It was during his Tasmanian sojourn, in the late 1980s, that he joined the Liberal Party. "I did have to hold my nose a bit," he says. He gained practical lessons in backroom politics because "in Tasmania they have rampant democracy, and joining the Libs gave me access to heaps of politicians". But he dismisses them now as a "bunch of statists".

Poised now to step onto the national stage, Leyonhjelm is hanging out his shingle, pushing the message that he and Family First senator-elect Bob Day see eye to eye on all matters economic, and should be viewed as a more reliable voting bloc than the three incoming Palmer United Party senators and their supposed ally, Ricky Muir. "I am trying to convince both government and media that Clive [Palmer] is not the main game," he says. He is also weighing the prospects for an LDP push into the NSW parliament, hoping that with his rising media profile - and flush with funds - the party will bag a seat or two in next year's state elections.

Voter confusion over the party name could well lend a serendipitous hand, as it did in the federal poll. He recently admitted "some people looked at us and thought we were Liberals because we had Liberal in our name".

Glenn Druery forecasts grimly that "given the nature of the man, and his lack of empathy, it's highly unlikely he will achieve anything in Canberra. Some say nothing." But whether his enemies like it or not, David Leyonhjelm now stands on one of the most coveted soap-boxes in the country."
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Woman charged after alleged drive-by shooting in Hervey Bay

A woman has been charged following an alleged drive-by shooting in Hervey Bay on Wednesday night.

The 28-year-old Kawungan woman was arrested after shots were fired into three cars and a garage in Arlington Court in Kawungan about 8.20pm.

Police stopped the woman's vehicle later that evening and arrested her.

It is not known whether there was anyone in the house at the time of the shooting or if the woman knew the occupants of the property.

The 28-year-old has been charged with unlawful weapon possession and possession of a knife in a public place, and investigations are continuing.

She will face Hervey Bay Magistrates Court on July 17.

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Manhunt for killer in grisly Botanic Gardens murder

THE man at a centre of a statewide manhunt following a grisly murder has been described as a quiet loner.

Scott Allen Miller continued to wander the streets two days the woman, in her 30s, was killed, her body cast under a tree in Melbourne’s Botanic Gardens.

Miller, 42, is the key suspect in the woman’s death after joggers made the discovery near Melbourne’s CBD on Saturday morning.

It is believed the victim, a Chinese woman, was working in Melbourne’s hospitality industry. She was walking to work in the early hours of Saturday morning when she met foul play.

At 8.35am, her naked body was discovered by joggers at St Kilda Rd and Linlithgow Ave, near the Police Memorial, with injuries to her legs consistent with being dragged.

The victim’s relatives were yet to be notified of her death.

Homicide Squad Detective Sergeant Nathan Favre said police could not rule out whether the victim had been sexually assaulted.

“We can’t rule out sexual assault as the motivation for this offence,” he said.

“Certainly the manner in which the deceased was located in a state of undress indicates that may have been the case.

“She was certainly found (in) a state of undress with a number of injuries that are being assessed.

“I don't wish to go into the exact injuries.”

It’s believed the woman was killed near where her body was found, with a murder weapon yet to be discovered last night.

“We’re scouring the entire area and trying to find any movements of the deceased and of Scott and anybody else of interest in the area,” Det Sgt Favre said.

“It’s a really public place and it’s a really shocking crime. It’s troubling, we’re working to solve it as quickly as possible.”

Police warned members of the public not to approach Mr Miller because he could be dangerous.

Geraldton teenager charged with murder

A 17-year-old from Wonthella in Geraldton, 420km north of Perth, has been charged with murder.

It's alleged he killed 51-year-old Christopher Cunningham Patterson earlier this week.

Police were called to a home in Seventh Street, Wonthella, around 6.50am on Thursday where they found Mr Patterson's body.

Detectives also sealed off a section of a car park at Geraldton Regional Hospital for forensic examination as part of their investigation.

The 17-year-old was remanded in custody and is due to appear in Geraldton Magistrates Court on Saturday.

In a separate development in Geraldton on Friday, police charged a woman with murdering her husband on June 24.

'Wife' on murder charge over Geraldton doctor's death

Police have charged a woman - reportedly the victim's wife - over the death of a Geraldton doctor.

Major crime squad detectives are investigating the death of 34-year-old doctor Dinendra Athukorala.

He was found injured at his home in Shenton Street, Geraldton on June 24 and died when he was unable to be resuscitated after being taken to hospital.

The 34-year-old woman, also believed to be a doctor, was charged with murder on Thursday night.

She was remanded in custody to appear in the Geraldton Magistrates Court on Friday.

Man charged with murder over stabbing at Bridgewater home

Police in Hobart have charged a 34-year-old man with murder following an investigation into a stabbing death in northern Hobart.

It is alleged the man killed a 48-year-old man at a Bridgewater home in the early hours of Friday morning.

Police say two men knew each other.

The man is due to appear in an after-hours session of the Magistrates Court in Hobart on Saturday morning.

Man charged with murder over woman's death at Tabulam

A MAN has been arrested following the suspicious death of a woman at Tabulam overnight.

Just after 2am this morning, emergency services were called to Guddingbow Avenue, Tabulam, by a 32-year-old man who said he'd found his partner unconscious on the bedroom floor, police said in a statement.

Police and ambulance paramedics attended and assisted the 32-year-old woman, but she was confirmed dead at the scene.

A crime scene has been established and Richmond Local Area Command detectives are investigating.

A 32-year-old man, the woman's partner, has been arrested and is currently assisting police with their inquiries at Lismore Police Station.

Murder victim was tied up, stabbed, bashed

A NSW home invasion victim died after being tied up, stabbed and brutally bashed to the head while his helpless son watched.

Intruders broke into Michael Martin's South Murwillumbah granny flat on Friday morning and carried out the vicious attack.

Mr Martin's son, who was also tied up during the ordeal, survived with minor injuries.

AAP understands emergency services found Mr Martin, a well-known Murwillumbah local nicknamed "Mullet Mick", with horrific head injuries.

The 46-year-old also had two puncture wounds to his chest and one of his hands was almost severed, which looked like a defensive injury.

AAP has been told an axe was found nearby.

Police believe the attack happened about 3am but the alarm was not raised until a passerby called police about 5am.

News Corporation reported Mr Martin's son arrived at the flat on Friday to help his father move out after a home invasion in April.

Mr Martin was released from a Gold Coast hospital a few weeks ago after receiving a stab wound to his eye in earlier attack.

Another man, a 48-year-old, was also injured in the attack at Mr Martin's Quarry Road home.

Police say they will talk to the 48-year-old in light of Mr Martin's death and investigate any potential links between the crimes.

Shots fired into properties - Craigiburn, Pakenham

Mum potentially murdered in Perth

Homicide detectives are at a home in Serpentine in Perth's south where it is believed a mother has been murdered.
 

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Gun shots, brawl, car bomb prompt police call for community vigilance in Dallas

POLICE have urged residents to be vigilant and promptly report crimes following a series of violent attacks in a Dallas street, some of which were not reported for over more than a fortnight.

In just over a month, there has been a suspected car bomb explosion, a large brawl and gun shots fired at a house in Kiewa Cres.

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Police officer cleared over fatal South Melbourne shooting

A POLICEMAN who fatally shot an armed man in South Melbourne has been cleared of any wrongdoing, but officers have been criticised for handcuffing the “obviously dead” 25-year-old.

Coroner Audrey Jamieson found Senior Constable David McHenry and Constable Adam McKenzie acted appropriately in pursuing and returning fire on Samir Ograzden after he shot at officers, hitting one in the leg.

The pursuit began after police intercepted a car in South Melbourne about 11.30pm on May 13, 2008 and found drugs, cash and a firearm.

Ograzden, a convicted criminal and occupant of the car, fled the scene and was pursued by two officers.

In a Kings Way carpark, he fired upon police, shooting Sen-Constable McHenry in the leg.

In the return fire, Sen-Constable McHenry fatally shot Ograzden in the neck.

Police immediately called an ambulance but, acting on orders, did not approach the wounded and prostrate Ograzden until half an hour later.

Members of the Critical Incident Response Team handcuffed him, requested his hands be covered to enable gunshot residue testing and then allowed paramedics access to him.

An officer reported that Ograzden appeared to have been coughing about 20 minutes after he was shot.

Ms Jamieson said the time taken for the CIRT to arrive at the scene to arrest and treat Mr Ograzden was unacceptable, but did not contribute to his death.

The coroner recommended police review training relating to the handcuffing of deceased or seriously injured people and foot pursuits.

She also made a number of recommendations to improve the integrity of investigations into matters involving police officers.

Young mother was tortured with knife before being shot

A young mother-of-four was brutally tortured with a knife before she was murdered and left to rot in a shallow bushland grave north of Brisbane.

Police will allege 28-year-old Tia Landers suffered a violent ordeal, which saw her legs cut and her body dragged into the shower because she was 'bleeding profusely' before she was shot twice, a police source has told MailOnline.

Ms Landers had been missing for a month before her body was found in a state forest at Beerburrum, north of Brisbane, on Thursday.
 

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Man stabbed to death in busy Sydney shopping centre Stay classy, Sydney....

A cafe worker has described how he watched in horror as a man was fatally stabbed in full view of school holiday shoppers at Myer in Westfield Parramatta today.

The shopping mall was placed into lockdown this morning after the stabbing on level four outside the Myer department store at about 10.30am, police said.

Cafe worker Paulo Agcaoili said he saw the man being attacked.

“There was a man with a knife, a big one, like a machete,” he said.

“He was standing in Myer stabbing someone.

“They got the guy, the police trained a stun gun on him.

“I saw people running away screaming, it happened so quickly.”

Witnesses said several police tasered the shirtless man, who had a large tattoo on his back.

Shops in the centre near the stabbing were forced into lockdown, while the rest of the centre remains open.

Another witness told Macquarie Radio he saw the man stab the victim, then take off his shirt, light a cigarette and start talking on his mobile phone while waiting for police to arrive.

He told AAP the attacker looked to be in his 40s and was taunting police officers at the scene.

“He kept plunging the knife in his chest, in and out, and paced up and down the shopping centre screaming at police,” he said, adding that the man was stabbed three to four times.

“He taunted the police, saying ‘what are you scared of?’” The man eventually left the knife in the man’s chest before police moved in to arrest him.
 
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Man shot, found ‘face down’ in street outside bikie gang clubhouse in Western Sydney

POLICE last night surrounded a bikie gang clubhouse demanding the occupants come out after a man was shot twice.

Heavily-armed tactical operations unit (TOU) officers, backed by their $400,000 BearCat, raided the Rebels clubhouse at Minchinbury three hours after the 34-year-old was shot.

He was shot in the upper thigh and torso and was reportedly found face down outside the clubhouse at 8.30pm.

The man also suffered a broken nose and head injuries. He was taken to Westmead Hospital in a serious but stable condition at 9pm.

Police confirmed the shooting was bikie related. There were unconfirmed reports the man was shot near the clubhouse and dragged down the street.

The TOU arrived at 11pm in several 4WDS, along with dogs and petrol-powered bolt cutters.

Police used a megaphone and asked the bikies to “come out of the unit”.

A police spokeswoman said last night there was no siege.

The shooting is close to where teenager Hayden Burnes was stabbed to death in 2011.
 

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Boy, 3, stabbed to death in Adelaide Rest in peace, little man.

A boy aged three has died of multiple stab wounds after his father allegedly took him from the family home in Adelaide's eastern suburbs.

Police say they were at the scene of an unrelated car crash in Gorge Road at suburban Athelstone about 9:00am ACST when a man drove up to the scene and allegedly told them his son was injured.

The boy was taken from the vehicle and rushed to the Adelaide Women's and Children's Hospital but died.

The father, who had minor injuries, was taken to the Royal Adelaide Hospital and police plan to speak with him further.

Police Inspector Seamus McDaid says the boy's mother had called them about 8:25am to say her son had been taken by his father from their house at Stepney, where the family all lived.

"The mother of the child had reported that she had concerns for the safety of the child," he said.

The Major Crime squad and eastern Adelaide police are now investigating.

They are keen to hear from anyone who saw a black Volkswagen Amorok being driven in Adelaide's eastern suburbs during the morning.

Man shot in home invasion - Evanston Gardens

Police are investigating an incident where a man was shot several times following a break-in at a home on Musgrave Street, Evanston Gardens.

Just before 4am, a group of men forced entry to the back door of the home while the occupants were asleep. The occupants, a 53-year-old man and a 43-year-old woman quickly barricaded themselves in the bedroom.

The intruders, believed to be at least two men, fired several shots into the bedroom door, two of which hit the male victim. The suspects then ran off and were last seen running through a nearby reserve.

Woman charged with murder over death - Alberton

A woman has been arrested for murder following an incident at a home in Alberton this morning.

At about 7.50am, Police and SAAS were called to a home on Rawson Street following reports a person had sustained serious stab wounds.

On arrival, the body of a man was found deceased inside. A woman, also inside the home, was arrested for murder.

Man charged over Narre Warren death

Homicide Squad detectives have charged a man following the death of a woman in Narre Warren South late yesterday evening.

The 48-year-old Cranbourne man has been charged with one count of murder.

He is expected to face the Melbourne Magistrates Court this afternoon for a remand hearing/

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Man dead after Ettalong Beach stabbing

A man has died after being stabbed yesterday at a house on the Central Coast.

Emergency services were called to Warrah Street at Ettalong Beach just before 1am (Monday 7 July 2014), where they found a 44-year-old man suffering a stab wound to the stomach.

He was taken to Gosford Hospital and died late last night.
 

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Two shot in Seaford over neighbourhood dispute

Two people are in hospital with gunshot wounds after a neighbourhood dispute turned violent in Melbourne's south-east.

Police were called to Levuka Street, Seaford, after reports of gunshots about 9pm on Saturday.

Two people, a man in his 50s and a woman sustained gunshots wounds and were conveyed to hospital.

The man was conveyed to The Alfred hospital in a serious condition while the woman was transported to the Frankston hospital with a minor injury to her lip.

Police believe the shooting may be connected to a neighbourhood dispute which happened earlier in the night.

A 30 -year-old man is in custody and is being interviewed by investigators.

Truganina home sprayed with bullets in drive-by shooting

A HOUSE in Melbourne’s west was sprayed with bullets during a drive-by shooting this morning.

Police believe a number of shots were fired at the home on Tylden Way in Truganina just before 1am.

Three adults and a child were home at the time, but no one was injured.

Police said it is believed the family were targeted in a case of mistaken identity.

Investigators have been told the offenders fled the scene in a dark-coloured car.

It was the second drive-by shooting in the area in less than a week.

Woman charged with murder after 79-year-old stabbed

A WOMAN has been charged with the stabbing murder of an elderly man at Coonamble.

Strike Force Devlin was formed by officers from Castlereagh Local Area Command and the Homicide Squad to investigate the suspicious death of 79-year-old local man Reginald Mumford.

Mr Mumford was found suffering stab wounds to his chest at his home on Smith Street about 6am.

He was taken to Coonamble Base Hospital but died a short time later.

Detectives have now charged a 31-year-old woman with murder at Coonamble Police Station.

Police find two dead in Sydney home

The bodies of a man and woman have been found inside a western Sydney home.

Police found the 26-year-old male and 48-year-old female dead in the Regents Park residence just before midday on Saturday after being alerted by concerned neighbours. A crime scene was established.

In a separate case, an attack on a man that left him covered in blood came to court after DNA evidence allegedly linked a suspect to the scene.

Slobodan Radenkovic, 65, was fixing a car in the driveway of his home in Edensor Park, in Sydney's west, on April 9 last year, when he was attacked by a stranger with a knife, Parramatta Bail Court heard.

Alexander Cosic was refused bail and will face Campbelltown Local Court this week.
 

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Man shot dead after drive-by shooting - Gosford

Police are investigating whether the drive-by shooting of a man inside his car on the NSW central coast is linked to bikies.

The 29-year-old was shot dead inside a ute at Comserv Close, West Gosford, on Thursday night.

Police arrived after receiving reports that multiple gun shots were heard in the area.

Emergency services found the victim slumped inside the ute just before 8pm.

He died at the scene and is yet to be identified.

The shooting happened outside a local business, police say.

The business is reportedly a motorbody shop. One local told News Corp Australia the Shop Outlet store was a bikie hangout.

“Local police are investigating and assisting NSW State Crime Command’s State Homicide Squad,” Detective Inspector Glenn Trayhurn said. "All avenues of inquiries are being explored but we have no solid leads at this point."

Police have established a crime scene.
 

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Mexican Drug Cartel members arrested in Sydney

In a bust that may or may not have been as badass as a set-piece from a Robert Rodriguez movie, the Sydney Morning Herald report that two men allegedly operating as part of a Mexican drug cartel were arrested at gunpoint in Neutral Bay earlier this weekend.

Federal police searched three properties on Friday, including one in Manly, and it is alleged that they found 30kg of methamphetamine, with an estimated street value of $30 million, along with automatic weapons and $2 million in cash.

Mexican nationals Federico Gonzalez Magana, aged 32, and Juan Vergara Rodriguez, aged 49, were arrested in connection with the investigation. They were refused bail at a hearing in Parramatta yesterday, and are now facing life in prison.

Methamphetamine use is becoming an increasingly serious problem in Australia, with health authorities greatly concerned about its long-term effects.

According to The Australian Crime Commission's 2012-2013 Illicit Drug Data Report, detection of amphetamine-type stimulants at the border more than doubled compared with the previous year's report.

The SMH report that Magana and Rodriguez were charged with "possessing a commercial quantity of border-controlled drugs reasonably suspected to have been imported, and dealing in money greater than $100,000, reasonably suspected to be proceeds of crime."

They will face court again on Wednesday.

Shot Melbourne men refuse to assist police In my opinion, medical care should be denied to people that refuse to cooperate with police in circumstances like this.

Two Melbourne men who were shot while sitting in a car are refusing to assist police.

The injured Werribee men, aged 18 and 23, went to Werribee Mercy Hospital early on Saturday morning.

The 23-year-old had wounds to his finger and arm and has been released.

The younger man suffered a serious wound to his left shoulder and remains in The Alfred hospital.

Men shot, stabbed - Henley Beach South

A man has been charged with attempted murder over a shooting and stabbing at Henley Beach South in Adelaide.

The sound of gunshots was reported to police just after 8:00pm on Sunday.

A patrol went to units in Henley Beach Road and found a man with a bullet wound and another with a minor stab wound.

Officers using a police dog located a man, 27, allegedly still armed and police charged him with two counts of attempt murder and with firearm offences.

He is expected to face Port Adelaide Magistrates Court.
 
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