SYDNEY: Police have released CCTV footage and are appealing for witnesses over a violent assault late last year on Oxford Street where a young man was bizarrely robbed of his skateboard and then attacked with it.

Fed up with continuing drunken violence, a long-time inner-city resident has begun offering walking tours around Kings Cross and Oxford Street with the hope he may educate teenagers and others on the perils and dangers as well as the myths that abound in the areas.

A senior representative with Amnesty International has claimed people in Cameroon including LGBTI people are being subjected to a raft of abuses including unlawful killings and torture.

ACT’s acting Chief Minister, Andrew Barr, has urged victims of violence in Canberra’s gay community to immediately report incidents to police following an outcry over a Facebook confessionals page which included a claim by one man that he was violently robbing gay men he had met at bars in Civic.

VICTORIA: Imprisoned murder accomplice Tania Herman has applied to marry her female lover.

The NSW Government has agreed to maintain a liquor licence freeze along Oxford Street for a further 12 months.

SYDNEY: Police have delivered an early Christmas present to inner-city residents and the LGBTI community after the arrest this week of two men wanted over a vicious assault and robbery of a Surry Hills man who had earlier befriended one of the attackers via a smartphone dating app.

Hacker activist group Anonymous has once again stepped up its campaign against the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) after members of the controversial anti-gay family led church announced their intentions to picket the funerals of victims – the majority of whom were young children – of last week’s mass school shooting in the US.

SYDNEY: Police have released the profile image used by a man who was allegedly involved in a violent home invasion and assault of a Surry Hills resident who had earlier befriended the attacker via an online mobile phone dating app.

NSW Police have assured Sydney’s LGBTI community and the wider public that they remain safe on city streets after a violent, unprovoked and random assault allegedly committed by an off-duty police employee just outside a popular inner-city gay nightspot last weekend.

Police are looking for three young men and one woman who were allegedly involved in an assault and robbery of a taxi driver after they were picked up from Oxford Street over the weekend.

A young up-and-coming rapper who once appeared on television talent quest The X-Factor is fighting for his life after being stabbed in the heart on Oxford Street over the weekend.

Police are appealing for information from the public as they continue their investigations into the killing of a young gay man discovered in his burnt Potts Point unit over the Labor Day long weekend.

It was a weekend of violence on Oxford Street and nearby streets after two men were stabbed in separate incidents on early Sunday morning.

Following the assault and robbery of a Surry Hills man in his own home this week by a person he had earlier met on a phone dating app, NSW Police have called for the public to use caution when on the internet or using online phone apps.