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This is a list of Australian people who have been convicted of serious crimes. See Demography of Australia.

Bank robbers

Australians convicted of bank robbery:

Drug traffickers

Australians convicted of drug-related crimes both in Australia and overseas:

Families

Notable Australian criminal families:

Gangsters

Fraudsters

Australians convicted of fraud:

Murderers

Australians convicted of murder:

Serial killers

Australians convicted of multiple murders:

Child sex offenders

Australians convicted of child sex offences:

  • Robert 'Dolly' Dunn, paedophile,[85] died in 2009 while serving a 20-year sentence
  • Dennis Ferguson, paedophile who has caused controversy in NSW and Queensland[86] found dead in December 2012[87]
  • Rolf Harris, Australian entertainer convicted of 12 counts of indecent assault involving underage girls[88]
  • Robert Hughes, actor convicted of ten child sex offences committed against five young girls between 1985 and 1990, sentenced to 10 years and 9 months with a non-parole period of six years[89][90]
  • Brian Keith Jones, aka "Mr Baldy", serial paedophile, jailed indefinitely in 2006 for breaches of parole[91]
  • Milton Orkopoulos, NSW state MP and child sex offender[92]
  • George Pell Former Archbishop of Melbourne (1996-2001), and Archbishop of Sydney (2001-2014). Convicted of sexually abusing two choirboys in 1996.[93]
  • Patrick Power, Crown prosecutor convicted of possessing child pornography[94]
  • Peter Scully, paedophile charged with abduction, human trafficking, rape, torture and murder; sentenced to life imprisonment. Known for creating and selling video on the Dark web called Daisy's Destruction, which features the torture and rape of a number of girls including an 18-month-old infant.[95]

Rapists

Australians convicted of rape:

Others

Australians convicted of other offences:

See also

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