Recent statistics from the Australian Institute of Criminology show that teenagers between the ages of 15 and 19 are the most dangerous group within Australian society, with young Australians the worst offenders of serious violent crimes including assault and abduction.

A court in the Northern Territory has heard that Paul John Stamp was locked in the boot of a car and burned alive in September 2012 after his flatmate discovered that he had stolen one of his beers out of their communal fridge.

Another incident of racism on Australian public transport has occurred, with mobile phone footage showing a man racially abusing a middle-aged couple of Asian appearance on a Sydney bus.

A British man, Gary George, has been found guilty of murdering his best friend Andrew Nall in a sadistic attack reminiscent of scenes from Australian horror film The Loved Ones.

CRIME | The Whiskey Au Go Go massacre on 8 March 1973 exposed the rampant violence and culture of organised crime that existed just below Brisbane’s sunny veneer. PAUL BLEAKLEY looks back on this crucial moment in Australian criminal history, and its little known connection to the UK.

An Australian university graduate and Army Reservist, Manyang Maker Tulba, has allegedly been subjected to routine beatings and torture while being detained in a South Sudanese jail after witnessing violent ethnic clashes in the country’s north last month.

Adrian Ernest Bayley, the man accused of raping and murdering Irish woman Jill Meagher in Melbourne last year has pleaded not guilty to murder, and has been ordered to stand trial in the Victorian Supreme Court after a committal hearing at Melbourne Magistrate’s Court earlier today.

The woman at the centre of the “stupid, fat Australian” case has won an appeal against her 2012 conviction after a north-west England court determined that it would not be in the public interest to uphold the court’s original verdict.

ABC News presenter Jeremy Fernandez says he has “copped racism before” but is disgusted he was verbally attacked on a bus in front of his toddler.

A new study shows Australians have replaced guns surrendered after the Port Arthur massacre and there are now just as many guns as before 1996.

As 2012 comes to a close, we look at the top stories dominating headlines back home in Australia, and what caught your interest here on AustralianTimes.co.uk.

BOOK REVIEW | In his new book Bali Raw, Bali resident Malcolm scott scratches the surface and exposes the unknown aspects of the popular tourist retreat.

A British woman found guilty of racially aggravated public disorder after calling her New Zealand neighbour a “stupid, fat Australian” plans to appeal her fine.

Footage of a racist verbal attack on a French woman in Australia told to “speak English or die” has emerged on YouTube.

A recent case in a UK magistrates court held calling someone a “stupid fat Australian” constituted racial abuse. PAUL BLEAKLEY argues that calling someone ‘Australian’ shouldn’t be considered a racial slur.

Police have vowed to smash Australia’s largest outlaw motorcycle gang (OMCG), the Rebels, which they say has infiltrated legitimate businesses.

After getting stabbed on a London bus Australian Timba Smits took time out to recover and re-group, before setting up a community-based organisation to tackle youth disengagement and inspire upcoming artists, culminating in the Kaleidoscope International Creative Festival this November.

Illegal imports of stun guns are in the spotlight after police revealed one of the prohibited weapons was used in a violent street attack in Melbourne.

A Melbourne magistrate has banned publication of prejudicial material about the man accused of murdering Melbourne woman Jill Meagher in a bid to halt an unprecedented social media hate campaign waged against him.