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Hot and windy conditions are forecast for the state and a total fire ban has been declared for Saturday, prompting authorities to ask the public to report any suspicious fire activity.
Topics: fires, bushfire, arson, community-and-society, tas, hobart-7000, launceston-7250, st-helens-7216
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Researchers create a tool that could help prevent dangerous fires, by identifying children with fire lighting behaviours that need attention from a mental health professional.
Topics: fires, bushfire, arson, child-health-and-behaviour, vic, australia
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Topics: rural, arson, crime, fires, mudjimba-4564
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Mick Dan discusses how persistence, passion and community support helped him recover from an arson attack.
Topics: arson, business-economics-and-finance, environmentally-sustainable-business, sustainable-living, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, lifestyle, woombye-4559
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West Australian property developer Hossean Pourzand disputes allegations it was his idea to set fire to a Welshpool factory he owned in order to make a $20 million insurance claim.
Topics: arson, crime, fraud-and-corporate-crime, courts-and-trials, fires, perth-6000, welshpool-6106, wa
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Residents of a street in Clayton, in Melbourne's south-east are on edge after eight fires in the area in the past several months.
Topics: arson, crime, law-crime-and-justice, clayton-3168
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The former treasurer of the Comanchero bikie gang is sentenced to six years in prison for torching a Kittens strip club in Melbourne.
Topics: arson, courts-and-trials, caulfield-south-3162, melbourne-3000, vic
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A married couple accused of blowing up their investment property to claim insurance money fled interstate because they feared they were being followed by those responsible for the arson attack, a District Court trial hears.
Topics: arson, crime, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, holden-hill-5088, adelaide-5000, sa
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A popular pizza shop in Hobart's north has burned down under suspicious circumstances, a year after a renovation at the premises.
Topics: arson, crime, law-crime-and-justice, claremont-7011
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Police in the Papua New Guinea highlands say a group of people angry over recent election results have burned buildings and vehicles formerly owned by the country's prime minister.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, arson, unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, papua-new-guinea, pacific
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There have been revenge attacks in Mendi, the capital of PNG's southern highlands province, after two policemen were killed at the weekend.
Topics: world-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, police, arson, murder-and-manslaughter, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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Police charge a 26-year-old woman with six counts of attempted murder, alleging she tried to kill residents inside unit complex in Brisbane's south on Saturday afternoon.
Topics: crime, arson, courts-and-trials, coopers-plains-4108, qld
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Local residents in an area of Goroka in PNG's Eastern Highlands province are accusing police of attacking them and burning several houses.
Topics: assault, death, people, police, arson, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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Hidden cameras are being rolled out in north coast New South Wales state forests in a bid to prevent people deliberately lighting bushfires.
Topics: arson, bushfire, regional, coffs-harbour-2450, port-macquarie-2444
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A Melbourne court releases confronting CCTV of an asylum seeker from Myanmar setting fire to a bank at Springvale, in Melbourne's south-east, in an "act of retribution" for being kept waiting to make a withdrawal.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, crime, arson, springvale-3171, melbourne-3000, vic
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Seven male youths, aged between 11 and 18, allegedly behind a fire that killed 23 people at an Islamic boarding school in Malaysia started the blaze because they had been mocked by students at the school, Kuala Lumpur's police chief says.
Topics: fires, arson, law-crime-and-justice, malaysia
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A volunteer firefighter accused of starting fires which caused at least half a million dollars worth of damage to homes, vehicles and property appears in court.
Topics: arson, law-crime-and-justice, fires, oyster-cove-7150
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The Adelaide couple were charged with arson after a rental property they owned in Adelaide's inner north east exploded and was reduced to rubble.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, arson, holden-hill-5088, wangaratta-3677
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A protest at a controversial housing development at Golden Bay, south of Perth, turns ugly with vandals setting fire to heavy earthmoving equipment.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, arson, environmental-impact, golden-bay-6174
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Volunteer firefighter Nathaniel Hendrik Brouwer pleads not guilty to charges related to a blaze that destroyed a Tasmanian rural fire station.
Topics: arson, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, hobart-7000, tas, middleton-7163
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Three men are expected to be charged with engaging in a terrorist act, Victoria Police say, following an "extensive investigation" into a fire at a Melbourne Islamic centre in 2016.
Topics: terrorism, police, fires, arson, melbourne-3000, fawkner-3060, meadow-heights-3048
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A man is charged over the deliberate lighting of a fire at the Bellevue Reception Centre in Bankstown last year.
Topics: arson, crime, police, law-crime-and-justice, bankstown-2200
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CCTV footage released by police shows two men setting alight a Bankstown function centre linked to the family of disgraced former NSW MP Eddie Obeid, with police saying they are aware a development application had been lodged for the site.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, arson, state-parliament, corruption, bankstown-2200
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New South Wales Police released this CCTV vision, of two men they would like to speak to about a fire at the Bellevue Function Centre at Fairfield in Sydney's west.
Topics: arson, vandalism, fairfield-west-2165
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A man is charged after a historic church recently restored to its former glory is damaged, and a house destroyed, in alleged arson attacks in the small Tasmanian town of Dover.
Topics: crime, arson, dover-7117
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