Nino Bucci
@ninobucci.bsky.social
Guardian Australia reporter, focusing on the justice system. nino.bucci@theguardian.com ninobucci@protonmail.com
The one joy I get from football now (as a bombers fan): www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...
‘I might be onto something here’: how one man gamified AFL pain and glory in online sensation | Jack Snape
The creator of the viral game Footy Redraft says he has been shocked by the exclusively positive feedback after millions of seasons were simulated by players in less than a month
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On Dons: “We have so many ‘big four’…guys and major law firm guys on boards who act in a way they would never advise their own companies. They throw their brains out the door when they walk into AFL board rooms. They treat these clubs like…their playground.“ www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/fo...
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3000 words please on why the New York Knicks offer hope to the Bombers after the sacking of Brad Scott
A second photographer in Los Angeles lost an eye to law enforcement "less-lethal" munitions while just taking pictures at protests. These weapons are supposed to be used ONLY for immediate violent threats. Marshall Woodruff and now Tucker Collins were armed with nothing but a camera.
Teen who went to photograph L.A. 'No Kings' rally shot, blinded by Homeland Security agent, attorney says
Tucker Collins, an 18-year-old freshman at USC, attended a 'No Kings' protest in Los Angeles on Mar. 28. He ended up getting shot in the eye with a less-lethal projectile by a Department of Homeland S...
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The latest instalment of an ongoing investigation from @ninobucci.bsky.social and I, looking at police use of so-called "less lethal" weapons in Australia. Today -- projectiles, including bean-bag and foam baton rounds. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘Less lethal’ deaths: courts examine role of controversial police weapons before three Australians died
Exclusive: Police forces argue bean-bag and foam baton rounds are less harmful than firearms but the projectiles have been linked to deaths around the world
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There were hundreds if not thousands of people searched using these designated area powers that didn’t comply with the law, and 33 people were charged or fined. VicPol notifying IBAC. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Hundreds potentially affected by Victoria police weapons searches that breached law
Exclusive: wide-ranging police powers used to conduct non-compliant searches that resulted in 33 people being charged or fined
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Scout* barely realised that something round and hard, with smoke coming from it, had landed in front of them before it exploded. Pain suddenly shot through their leg and arm. Scout fell to their knees, before someone nearby helped them rush out of the area. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Police detonated a ‘stinger’ grenade at a Melbourne protest. Now two activists may sue over their injuries
Grenades filled with rubber pellets and other so-called ‘less lethal’ munitions have been increasingly deployed, despite being linked to serious injuries and even deaths
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Had to cast my mind back to before some of these teens were born for this: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Will Victoria’s new youth crime laws be tough on crime or just a coward punch?
Jacinta Allan’s Labor government takes a leaf out of the playbook of conservative oppositions: focus on crime and hope voters see them as knights in shining armour
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The Victorian Office of Public Prosecutions will not charge Kyle and Jackie O with contempt for potentially prejudicial comments made during the trial of mushroom triple-murderer Erin Patterson, including Kyle saying “lock that bitch up”. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Prosecutor will not charge Kyle and Jackie O and Mamamia with contempt over Erin Patterson comments
Kyle Sandilands said ‘just lock that bitch up’ on air during the high profile mushroom murder trial, which prompted the referral
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In winter this year, a young Aboriginal man with a history of self-harm who was remanded in custody in Melbourne was told he would be moving cells. And so he was driven 300km to the police cells in Wodonga. Welcome to the process known as “decanting”. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Prisoners spending entire jail term in police cells as Victoria’s justice system buckles
Prisoners in police cells often have less access to healthcare and less chance of being visited by family and lawyers
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North Melbourne are playing in a league of their own. Here is how the remaining challengers can break @nmfcofficial.bsky.social stranglehold on the #AFLW www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...
AFLW finals: how the challengers shape up in their bid to end Kangaroos’ supremacy | Martin Pegan
It seems like a near-impossible task, but of the seven other finalists, which are best placed to cause an upset?
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I found out while working on this piece about nitazenes that police have closed the investigation into who supplied the “cocaine” linked to four overdoses in Melbourne last year. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
A fatal drop: what do we know about the drugs, 500 times stronger than heroin, taking Australian lives?
Only a few years after first being detected in Australia, nitazenes have been found in everything from vapes to fake heroin – and the death toll is rising
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My colleague Adeshola Ore and I took a look at hate crimes in Australia, getting a deeper sense of the issue beyond the frenzy of new laws and debate post October 7. We found a complex picture of how police deal with complaints, but that there had been about 435 charges for hate crimes since 2020.
On the Roos, the best team I've ever seen: www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2...
History secured: There is no telling where the record-breaking Roos’ AFLW dominance will end I Nino Bucci
North Melbourne have won more consecutive games – 24 – than any VFL/AFL/AFLW team as attention turns to winning back-to-back premierships
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Seeing lots of reviews on Tony Abbott’s book on Australia, but none that tackle the real issue: did he explain the history of Australian street libraries
Bombers should have taken the deal. The club would be better off without a captain who wants to leave so much that he calls the president begging for it.
“Lawyers and activists say these incidents fit a pattern of increased police force against protesters – including so-called ‘less-lethal’ tools such as baton rounds, flash-bang devices and capsicum spray.” 7ampodcast.com.au/episodes/why...
Why protests are getting more dangerous
Melbourne photojournalist Alex Zucco was cleaning her camera lens when a police officer hit her directly in the face with a stream of capsicum spray at a protest outside the Melbourne Land Forces Inte...
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The coroner told the NT government in 2007 to keep a database about maintenance in public housing. It didn’t listen. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Death of three-year-old boy in social housing fire could have been caused by faulty electrical wiring, inquest hears
Inquest is hearing evidence about the 2023 death of Mitchell Thomas at Larapinta in Alice Springs
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Lots of talk about bari weiss but not enough about weis bars
The Victorian DPP is appealing Erin Patterson‘s sentence on the basis it was “manifestly inadequate”. On 8 September, Patterson was sentenced to life with a non-parole period of 33 years for the murders of Don and Gail Patterson and Heather Wilkinson, and the attempted murder of Ian Wilkinson.
NT DPP appealing this (non custodial) sentence, per the ABC.
Nino Bucci@ninobucci.bsky.social · 11mo agoIn 2023, I spent a few months investigating why so many Aboriginal pedestrians were killed in road accidents in the NT. There was a lingering sense that racism played a part in this over representation, and that some drivers were dehumanising Aboriginal people. And lo: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
In 2023, I spent a few months investigating why so many Aboriginal pedestrians were killed in road accidents in the NT. There was a lingering sense that racism played a part in this over representation, and that some drivers were dehumanising Aboriginal people. And lo: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Fatal hit-run driver condemned for bragging about running men down
The Northern Territory's Director of Public Prosecutions is considering whether to appeal a decision to allow a young fatal hit-and-run driver who bragged to his friends afterwards to avoid jail time.
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Has there ever been a greater embodiment of everything wrong with the Bombers than Patrick Voss? No, Steve Dank doesn’t count
So proud to work with Lorena, Sarah and Ella on this series. Here is part one: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities
Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...
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An important follow on the Walker findings: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Kumanjayi Walker inquest findings will bring ‘lasting reform’ to NT police, says anti-racism officer
Both NT police and Territory government claim ‘much has changed’ in six years since 19-year-old was shot dead by police officer in Yuendumu
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Spent yesterday in Yuendumu, a place I’d wrote about and thought about for the past five years but never visited www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
One report, 33 recommendations, but Kumanjayi Walker inquest findings draw on centuries of pain
The conclusions of coroner Elisabeth Armitage on how similar deaths could be prevented reflect the impact of colonial massacres and domestic abuse
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