Wrongful Convictions · False Allegations · Memory & the Courts
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New rape courtrooms in England and Wales and pre-recorded evidence in NSW are sold as easing delays and stress for complainants. What about a fair trial for the accused?
25 September 2026
The NSW government plans to let complainants in adult sexual assault trials give pre-recorded evidence-in-chief, trial ground rules hearings in three District Courts, and narrow court access to counselling records.
22 September 2026
Northern Territory incarceration has hit a record 2,800 people in custody. Jesuit Social Services on why investing in people, not prisons, makes us all safer.
1 September 2026
One was a cop branded a serial rapist. Another was accused of a nightclub drugging. But these men share one thing in common: they were all innocent.
27 August 2026
The Human Rights Law Centre says a restrictive parole condition that stopped Sue Neill-Fraser from being able to claim her innocence in the media has been removed after a court challenge.
25 August 2026
Two NSW Police officers shared witness statements before submitting them as evidence. A judge said it “undermines confidence” in their accounts — then allowed the evidence and ruled the arrest lawful.
15 August 2026
Jesuit Social Services is calling on the Victorian Government to withdraw the Corrections Amendment Bill 2026, which removes the right of people in custody to an hour in the open air each day and weakens the legal minimum standards for their treatment.
6 August 2026
Are Australia’s rape reforms jailing innocent men? NSW costs certificates in sexual assault cases leapt from 28% to 67% in three years — and the men who paid.
5 August 2026
Bettina Arndt on the continuing campaign against Craig McLachlan after he was found not guilty of 13 charges.
9 April 2026
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
Bettina Arndt on the campaign against Dr Fiona Girkin for teaching police an evidence-based approach to domestic violence.
25 May 2025
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
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 the #MeToo campaign that ruined Craig McLachlan's career and the erosion of the presumption of innocence.
27 December 2024
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
The reasoning behind Jarryd Hayne's successful sexual assault appeal after three trials and two overturned verdicts.
17 June 2024
Derek Bromley is granted parole 40 years after his 1984 murder conviction, still maintaining his innocence.
28 March 2024
A Sydney judge ruled a rape complainant used a rehearsed script to manipulate the accused into an apology he did not believe. The charges were then dropped.
11 February 2024
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
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
Eight Australian cases in which judges, lawyers and legal academics say prosecutors strained impermissibly for a conviction — from Gordon Wood to Shane Drumgold.
4 August 2023
Retired NSW public servant Noel Greenaway, 85, is serving 20 years over 1960s Parramatta Girls allegations — a conviction that turned on tendency evidence.
12 June 2023
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
Research shows one in three Australians think women use sexual assault claims as retribution against men.
28 March 2023
Part one of an examination of corruption pervading police forces in Australia and the United Kingdom.
20 February 2023
Bettina Arndt on courts withholding mobile phone evidence that could clear men accused of sexual assault.
11 January 2023
How unproven sexual assault allegations can create celebrities out of accusers while destroying the lives of the accused.
10 January 2023
Bill Spedding was harassed and ostracised after police laid historical sex charges against him during the William Tyrrell investigation. The NSW Supreme Court found the prosecution was malicious.
1 December 2022
Bettina Arndt on the Brittany Higgins case and what readers can do about the attack on basic principles of criminal justice.
31 October 2022
A NSW officer is charged with fabricating evidence, but his victim explains that the cover-ups run far deeper.
7 October 2022
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
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 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
Actor Craig McLachlan is found not guilty of all seven charges of indecent assault and six charges of common assault in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court.
15 December 2020
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
How a preposterous prosecution of the Cook family collapsed, another humiliating failure of Australia's criminal justice system.
7 September 2020
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 has had 18 judgements overturned by the High Court in 14 years, making the case for a CCRC.
23 July 2020
Oscar winner to be awarded full $2.9m in damages after judges reject all publisher’s grounds of appeal
2 July 2020
Robert Xie and his wife Kathy Lin say he was framed for the 2009 murders of five of her family. Two extracts from his appeal submissions show why.
24 June 2020
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
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
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
A Sydney man sues his former wife, NSW Police and a crown prosecutor for malicious prosecution over false rape charges.
1 May 2020
Australia's High Court unanimously quashed Cardinal George Pell's conviction for sexually abusing two choirboys, freeing him after more than 400 days in jail.
7 April 2020
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
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