Leigh Sales’ new book shares the insights of more than 30 prominent and experienced Australian journalists, including Laurie Oakes, Samantha Maiden and Trent Dalton, about their craft.
The report makes ‘several serious findings of misconduct’ against former Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold, but also finds the prosecution was properly brought.
In this podcast, Le canvasses the challenges her constituents are facing with the cost of living crisis and the aftermath of the curfew placed on her electorate during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
Thorpe made the claim while Van was attacking Labor for politicising the Brittany Higgins allegation that she was raped in the office of then minister Linda Reynolds in 2019
Anthony Albanese declared the caucus was 1000% behind Katy Gallagher, as the Finance Minister fights off allegations of misleading parliament while in opposition in 2021
In fresh rounds of this story that never goes away, now Finance Minister Katy Gallagher is in the political frame facing allegations of misleading parliament
The decision to prosecute or not raises big political and philosophical questions. But most importantly, it directly affects peoples’ lives in profound and lasting ways.
ACT Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shane Drumgold today announced that the charges against Bruce Lehrmann, the man accused of raping Brittany Higgins at Parliament House in 2019, have been withdrawn…
The plan for a second trial of Bruce Lehrmann has been dropped after expert medical advice warned it posed a “significant and unacceptable risk” to Brittany Higgins’ life. The ACT Director of Public Prosecutions…
In the end, we must accept there are flaws in jury processes. But finding alternatives has proved difficult, hence the reluctance of governments to abandon the status quo.
Ben Livings, University of South Australia dan Rick Sarre, University of South Australia
The dangers of allowing extraneous “research” are twofold. First, such evidence is not subject to the rules of admissibility. Second, it isn’t subject to the rigours of cross-examination.
Higgins accused Lehrmann of assaulting her in the parliamentary office of Reynolds, who was defence industry minister, in March 2019, after a night out drinking in two Canberra bars