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Angus Delaney

Angus Delaney

Angus Delaney is a reporter at The Age. Email him at angus.delaney@theage.com.au or contact him securely on Signal at angusdelaney.31

Aidan Becker died at Mernda train station after trying to help a schoolboy.

Girl, 16, charged with assaulting police after Mernda train station hero stabbing

The 16-year-old is the fifth person charged following the death of good Samaritan Aidan Becker.

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A file image of an Islamic State flag in Syria.

Melbourne teen arrested with Islamic State flag and terrorist manuals

The 17-year-old was charged days after a Sydney teenager faced court for allegedly plotting a terror attack.

  • Angus Delaney
Victoria Police officers and PSO’s on patrol at Highpoint Shopping Centre.

Man allegedly found with gun down pants, soliciting urine from teenagers

Police were called to Highpoint Shopping Centre after the man allegedly asked teenagers for urine. Officers claim they found a loaded gun down his pants.

  • Angus Delaney
The man will serve at least four years for possessing and sharing child abuse material, and grooming children in Australia and overseas.

Melbourne man jailed for grooming children on the dark web

The 78-year-old also recruited young people to have sexual conversations with children and share child abuse material, police said.

  • Angus Delaney
People shop for flowers at a market ahead of Nowruz celebrations on March 19, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. Nowruz, or Persian New Year, is a festival celebrated worldwide by various ethnicities. It takes place on the spring equinox, according to the Iranian Solar Hijri calendar. This year the holiday falls three weeks into the war that broke out on February 28 with US-Israeli joint attacks on Iran, which killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran has retaliated by firing waves of missiles and drones at Israel, and targeting US allies in the region.

US-Iran war news updates: Journalist, cameraman wounded in Israeli strike; Pentagon wants $200b for war; PM establishes fuel supply taskforce

Follow our live coverage of the conflict in the Middle East and related developments in Australia.

  • Sarah McPhee, Jack Gramenz and Angus Delaney
Police officer Stacey Dwyer speaks with a man arrested for possessing methamphetamine.

‘Like dogs to cats’: On the trail of Melbourne’s youth gangs

During a rainy late-night patrol, The Age got a front-row seat to Melbourne’s youth crime crisis in the city’s west.

  • Angus Delaney
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Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Bob Hill.

Car thefts nearly double in three years, as crime continues to rise

The growth of crime in Victoria is slowing after several years of sharp increases, but a meaningful reduction in crime is unlikely to happen any time soon.

  • Angus Delaney
Iranian women’s soccer team at Sydney Airport

US-Iran war as it happened: One Iranian soccer player reverses asylum decision and will return to Iran; Ships targeted in Strait of Hormuz; ACCC investigates petrol price gouging

Read our continuing live coverage of the conflict in the Middle East, and related developments in Australia.

  • Emily Kaine, Sarah McPhee and Angus Delaney
The US-Israeli war on Iran continues.

US-Iran war as it happened: Player refuses to leave as Iranian women’s soccer team departs Sydney; NATO shoots down second missile heading for Turkey

The ripples of the conflict in the Middle East reached Australian shores, as players on the Iranian women’s football team were granted asylum, while others departed the country to return to Iran. Look back on our live coverage.

  • Angus Delaney, Emily Kaine, Sarah McPhee, Ellen Connolly and Josefine Ganko
Middle East at war.

US-Iran war as it happened: Ali Khamenei’s son Mojtaba Khamenei named new Supreme Leader; Acid rain falls in Tehran; Almost $90 billion wiped off ASX; Iran death toll rises

The conflict in the Middle East is now in its second week, with strikes across the region as the US and Israel continue to attack Iran. Follow our rolling coverage.

  • Angus Delaney, Emily Kaine and Ellen Connolly