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Twice a week Amelia has to face a man who threatened her with a knife, and give him their small son unsupervised. “It is very scary,” she says.

A Victorian man convicted of raping a 14 year old boy in a public toilet in 1996 has successfully obtained a working with children check.

A doctor working and living in Hobart as a medical registrar was found guilty of professional misconduct by the Tasmanian Health Practitioners Tribunal.

“What drove Borce Ristevski to kill his wife,” was a headline the Herald Sun published. Too often the media looks for excuses to justify abhorrent crimes.

Chief Judge Peter Kidd has sentenced Cardinal George Pell to six years in jail for the ‘callous’ and ‘brazen’ abuse of two choirboys in Melbourne in 1996.

The President of the Blue Knot Foundation Dr Cathy Kezelman AM says the reaction to George Pell’s sentencing will be emotionally charged & polarising.

3,048 people have donated more than $130,000 in the #Freethepeople campaign to pay the fines of Aboriginal women being held in Western Australian prisons. 

It has been almost 20 years since the ground-breaking report of the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC), Equality Before the Law: Justice for Women.