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Ben Roberts-Smith (centre), former AFP commissioner Mick Keelty (right) and ex-deputy commissioner Ramzi Jabbour.

AFP fails to identify leak that cruelled Ben Roberts-Smith war crimes investigation

The Australian Federal Police has finally released embarrassing documents showing it still cannot identify the source of a damaging tip-off.

  • Michael Bachelard and Nick McKenzie

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Former AFP commissioner Mick Keelty at his home in Brisbane this week.

Time for truth on the ‘tip’ that destroyed top cop’s career

Former AFP chief Mick Keelty says the events that sprang from two meetings with the war criminal in 2018 have “all but broken” him. Now he wants to come clean.

  • Michael Bachelard, Chris Masters and Nick McKenzie
Disgraced war hero Ben Roberts-Smith.

AFP argues corrupt agents will escape scrutiny if war crimes leak disclosed

The nation’s premier crime-fighting agency refused for a fifth time to release details of its investigation into a leak that threatened to derail a war crimes inquiry into Ben Roberts Smith.

  • Michael Bachelard and Nick McKenzie
Inside the negotiations to bring back the five remaining members of the Bali Nine imprisoned in Indonesia.

PM makes a welcome show of compassion for Bali Nine

I will never forget the cold-blooded execution of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, young Australians sacrificed on the altar of Indonesian domestic politics in 2015 by then-Indonesian president Joko Widodo.

Former AFP boss Mick Keelty has admitted passing on information about a police investigation to its target.

Porter defends Keelty's appointment to anti-corruption position

Attorney-General Christian Porter has defended former AFP boss Mick Keelty's role as an anti-corruption adviser, even though his conduct was subject to a corruption investigation at the time.

  • Rob Harris and Nick McKenzie
Mick Keelty last year.

Covert war crimes inquiry compromised by former AFP chief Mick Keelty

A corruption investigation was launched after confidential police information was leaked to war crimes suspect Ben Roberts-Smith at a covert stage of the inquiry.

  • Nick McKenzie and Chris Masters
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Hamish Macdonald: “Australians are pretty alert to the talking-point culture of our politics, and as a very base point my job is to get beyond that."

There's something about Hamish: TV's It boy reveals how being bullied shaped his career

A familiar face on The Project and recognisable voice on ABC radio, the normally guarded Hamish Macdonald is about to begin one of the toughest gigs on television.

  • Jacqueline Maley and Michael Lallo
Junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers at Wentworth, NSW.

Water cop pledges to back grassroots push for river reforms

The top water cop in the Murray-Darling Basin is backing people power to launch major water reforms that could hit hardest in South Australia.

  • Mike Foley
The evacuation point for Batemans Bay residents, the Hanging Rock Sports Club Function Centre, on Tuesday morning. 

People are looking for someone to blame and right now the PM's in their sights

The thousands of people who have had their homes flattened or are stranded along our coastline want their basic needs met.

  • Chris O'Keefe
Lake Burrendong, one of the largest dams in the Murray-Darling Basin, nears being empty of water, revealing the remains of a farmhouse that would normally be under tens of metres of water.

How 100 years of water-sharing history confounds the Murrary-Darling stand-off

Parts of the water-sharing deal between the states are based on old realities that no longer apply. Can our governments rise above their history to strike a fairer deal?

  • Chris Guest