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Police station death could have been prevented

A police officer, on leave with mental health issues, should never have been able to access the police station where he ended his life, a coroner has found.

AAP · Mar 11, 2025

Woman's missed heart attack prompts push for change

A woman who died of a heart attack in an emergency department was misdiagnosed as having an adverse reaction to codeine, a coroner has found.

AAP · Jan 22, 2025

Australian police are warning about ‘sadistic sextortion’. Here’s how it works, and the red flags for parents

Children as young as 12 are being targeted by members of online communities who put pressure on them to create extreme content

The Guardian - AU · Sep 6, 2024

Indigenous man's human rights breached at Mildura Base Hospital, coroner finds

An Aboriginal man who died hours after being discharged from a Victorian hospital was unlawfully secluded, a coroner has found.

ABC News · May 16, 2023

Vic police arrest shooting preventable

A coroner has recommended Victoria Police develop systems to ensure officers are fit for duty, in finding a 2013 death during a police arrest was preventable.

AAP · Nov 22, 2022

Victoria Police criticised in coronial inquest into fatal shooting for not monitoring members' mental health

A coroner finds Victoria Police failed to adequately monitor whether its members were mentally and physically fit for duty, and for delaying a ban on single-officer patrols, after the 2013 death of Vlado Micetic in Melbourne.

ABC News · Nov 22, 2022

Coronial inquest hears of 'missed opportunities' in lead-up to teenager Lachlan Cook's death on school Vietnam trip

A lawyer representing the family of Lachlan Cook, 16, tells the inquest the boy's care on a school trip to Vietnam as he fell ill and died was "breathtakingly negligent".

ABC News · Jun 16, 2022