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Close watchers of politics and culture say the African crime “crisis” provides an uncomfortable lesson for politicians and the media. In its wake are scarred communities and a big law and order bill for taxpayers.
The ex-undercover cop who writes to beat his nightmares We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement If Keith Banks peers back into the darkness, his mouth is flooded with the gun-oil taste of the service pistol he placed in his mouth to end it all. Sitting in his favourite chair with a bellyful of Scotch and a mind full of trauma, he knew he was less than 500 grams of trigger pressure away from joining the mate he had seen die on a raid for one of Australia’s most dangerous criminals.
June 4th, 2021 By David KnoxComments offFiled under: News, The Today Show has been fined $30,000 as part of 12 media organisations collectively fined 1.1m after publishing details of Cardinal George Pell’s child sexual abuse convictions in breach of court orders. Nine-owned newspapers and News Corp copped the biggest fines of $450,000 and $400,000 respectively, when they published details referencing a guilty verdict in a high-profile Australian’s trial in late 2018. Suppression orders were in place until February 2019 when a second trial was subsequently scrapped. While Pell was found ...
Media companies that breached a suppression order to publish details of Cardinal George Pell's abuse convictions - which were later quashed - must pay more than $1 million in fines.
Cardinal George Pell has admitted he was 'excessively optimistic' he would be granted bail after being wrongly convicted of child sex abuse charges. Australia's highest-ranking Catholic official was convicted in December 2018 of five counts of sexually abusing two 13-year-old choirboys at Melbourne's St Patrick's Cathedral in 1996. He spent 404 days behind bars before his six-year jail sentence was overturned in a final appeal to the High Court in April 2020. Pell, who turns 80 next month, has since returned to his life in Rome having left his job as prefect of the Vatican's economy ministry...