Craig McLachlan under siege
Bettina Arndt on the continuing campaign against Craig McLachlan after he was found not guilty of 13 charges.
9 April 2026
Australia
31 stories
The Justices Unpick a Stitch-Up
The High Court clears the way for a South Australian man to sue his ex-wife for malicious prosecution over false allegations.
18 July 2025
Tasmanian DV truth teller under attack
Bettina Arndt on the campaign against Dr Fiona Girkin for teaching police an evidence-based approach to domestic violence.
25 May 2025
Alleged fake sex abuse scam revealed as multiple people arrested
Police allege a group of “claims farmers” recruited former inmates and public-school students to file fraudulent historical child sexual abuse compensation claims, leading to arrests across Sydney.
13 February 2025
Andrew Bolt slams process surrounding awarding of compensation to two men who claimed they were abused by George Pell
Sky News host Andrew Bolt has criticised the decision to grant two men compensation by the federal government’s National Redress Scheme for alleged historical…
31 January 2025
Vanessa Scammell denounces #MeToo campaign that ruined Australian actor Craig McLachlan's career
Vanessa Scammell denounces the #MeToo campaign that ruined Craig McLachlan's career and the erosion of the presumption of innocence.
27 December 2024
False Accusations and Wrongful Convictions: How Lives Can So Easily Be Ruined
The history of the Australian criminal justice system is littered with instances of innocent lives ruined as a result of false accusations and wrongful convictions.
6 November 2024
Jarryd Hayne's Successful Sexual Assault Appeal: The Reasoning Behind the Judgment
The reasoning behind Jarryd Hayne's successful sexual assault appeal after three trials and two overturned verdicts.
17 June 2024
Derek Bromley granted parole after 40 years
Derek Bromley is granted parole 40 years after his 1984 murder conviction, still maintaining his innocence.
28 March 2024
False rape allegations aren’t so rare
The much-quoted 5 per cent figure comes from a meta-analysis that excluded whole categories of cases. Two Australian researchers put the real rate above 10 per cent.
21 October 2023
Cheerleading coach acquitted of sexually assaulting girls
An Adelaide cheerleading coach who had been accused of sexually assaulting girls at a club is acquitted of all charges, after a judge finds the complainants were "not credible or reliable".
29 September 2023
Corruption Pervades Police Forces in Australia and United Kingdom: Part 2
The headline of a report in the Age Newspaper on Wednesday 22 March 2023 read, “Gobbo seeks immunity deal to dob on police.” Gobbo refers, of course, to Nicola…
3 April 2023
One in three think women use sex assault claims to 'get back at men'
Research shows one in three Australians think women use sexual assault claims as retribution against men.
28 March 2023
Corruption Pervades Police Forces in Australia and the United Kingdom: Part 1
Part one of an examination of corruption pervading police forces in Australia and the United Kingdom.
20 February 2023
Mobiles in the dock
Bettina Arndt on courts withholding mobile phone evidence that could clear men accused of sexual assault.
11 January 2023
Unproven Sexual Assault Allegations: Creating Celebrities While Destroying Lives
How unproven sexual assault allegations can create celebrities out of accusers while destroying the lives of the accused.
10 January 2023
Questionable conduct
Bettina Arndt on the Brittany Higgins case and what readers can do about the attack on basic principles of criminal justice.
31 October 2022
Officer Charged with Fabricating Evidence, But His Victim Explains that Coverups Run Deep
A NSW officer is charged with fabricating evidence, but his victim explains that the cover-ups run far deeper.
7 October 2022
Sydney gynaecologist found not guilty of sexually assaulting patient
A Sydney gynaecologist is found not guilty of sexual assault after a judge found the complainant's account bereft of rational explanation.
10 May 2022
Data reveals only 14 per cent of child sexual abuse claims before Family Court believed to be true by judges
The authors of a new report into findings in Family Court matters where sexual abuse was alleged say they began the project because of a lack of data.
9 August 2021
The use of ‘recovered memory’ in this alarming Aussie sex scandal reveals its ruinous nature, & the weakness of liberal democracy
The Australian government may fall because of unproven and extremely dodgy 30-year-old rape allegations against a cabinet minister – the unchecked power of the #MeToo movement and its woke media allies is destroying our society.
9 March 2021
'How dare they': NSW Police officer threatened to break man's legs after unlawful arrest
NSW Police officers threatened to break a man's legs after an unlawful arrest, with the state paying out for their misconduct.
22 September 2020
Incompetent, humiliated criminal system fails again
How a preposterous prosecution of the Cook family collapsed, another humiliating failure of Australia's criminal justice system.
7 September 2020
Exposing the Cost of NSW Police Misconduct: An Interview With David Shoebridge
David Shoebridge on the tens of millions NSW pays out over police misconduct and the culture that protects it.
11 August 2020
Victoria's Court of Appeal — too many judgements overturned, bring on a CCRC
Victoria's Court of Appeal has had 18 judgements overturned by the High Court in 14 years, making the case for a CCRC.
23 July 2020
Complainants in sexual assault trials are not to be granted 'better footing' than any other witness or complainant
An appeal court confirms complainants in sexual assault trials are not to be granted better footing than any other witness or complainant.
18 June 2020
A cancerous phenomenon
One of Australia's most respected former detectives, Colin McLaren, breaks rank to explain why he no longer trusts the judicial system — and why Australia still has no criminal cases review commission.
13 June 2020
Another CCRC established … but still not in Australia
New Zealand's Criminal Cases Review Commission opens for applications on 1 July 2020, leaving Australia the outlier with no equivalent body.
24 May 2020
Man sues over false rape charges by his ex
A Sydney man sues his former wife, NSW Police and a crown prosecutor for malicious prosecution over false rape charges.
1 May 2020
Child institutional abuse probe’s approach under fire
Senior trauma and memory researchers say the $500 million royal commission has adopted a misguided victim-advocacy role and published “ethically dubious” research.
30 September 2017
‘Those events never happened’
She’s a highly influential activist for childhood trauma survivors. But questions are being asked about Cathy Kezelman’s own shocking story of abuse.
30 September 2017