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Steve Johnson, center, the brother of Scott Johnson, walks with his wife Rosemarie, left, and daughter Tessa outside the New South Wales Supreme Court in Sydney, Thursday, June 8, 2023. Scott Phillip White, the man who admitted killing American mathematician Scott Johnson by punching him from a cliff top at a gay meeting place in Sydney in 1988 was sentenced to nine years in prison.

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Australian man sentenced to 9 years in prison for gay American’s 1988 manslaughter

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Australia plans to ban swastikas and other Nazi symbols in legislation coming next week

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Fiji reconsiders security ties with China amid Pacific tensions

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Brother of gay American attacked on Sydney cliff in 1988 says killer deserves no leniency

Kathleen Folbigg appears via video link during a convictions inquiry at the NSW Coroners Court, Sydney, Wednesday, May 1, 2019. New South Wales Attorney-General Michael Daley pardoned Folbigg on Monday, June 5, 2023, after spending 20 years in prison for killing her four children after being advised there was reasonable doubt about Folbigg's guilt based on new scientific evidence that the deaths could have been from natural causes.

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Australian mother imprisoned 20 years pardoned and freed because of doubt she killed her 4 children

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Jacinda Ardern given a top New Zealand honor for her service during shooting, pandemic

A visitor looks at a display featuring decorated war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, Australia, Friday, June 2, 2023. A judge concluded Roberts-Smith unlawfully killed prisoners and committed other war crimes in Afghanistan, in a ruling Thursday, June 1 dismissing Roberts-Smith's claims that he was defamed by media reports about his war service.

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Australian decorated hero quits corporate job after Afghanistan war crime revelations

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New Zealand police file 5 murder charges against man accused of starting deadly hostel fire

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Decorated Australian war veteran unlawfully killed prisoners in Afghanistan, judge says

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Australian general says US warns war crime allegations could prevent work with Australia’s SAS