Woman Raises Funds to Investigate Own Rape
Only two weeks ago, 25 year old South Australian primary school teacher Airdre Mattner created a crowdfunding campaign, relying on the kindness of strangers to help investigate her claim that she was drugged and raped while holidaying in Korea last...
Transgender Inmates at Greater Risk of Abuse
Transgender inmates detained in US immigration facilities are at high risk of being sexually assaulted, repeatedly strip-searched and held indefinitely in solitary confinement, according to a study released last Wednesday by the advocacy group Human Rights Watch. The 68-page report,...
Defendant Appeals Because Lawyer Refused to Make Complainant Cry
A man has attempted to have his conviction overturned because his criminal defence lawyer did not reduce the victim to tears during cross-examination. Francis Kofi Okrah was sentenced to seven years in prison after being found guilty of sexual assault...
Outrage Over Gang Rape Article
Senior journalist Paul Sheehan recently penned an apology for his negligent article featured in the Sydney Morning Herald last week, where he had detailed allegations of an horrific and violent gang rape of a Sydney nurse in 2002. Mr Sheehan’s...
Court Delays: Endangering the Community?
Several of our previous blogs have highlighted the delays experienced by courts across NSW - a problem that may worsen with Attorney General Gabrielle Upton flagged the closure of several regional courts. The delays mean that some defendants are being...
High Court Rules on Offshore Detention
In a long-awaited landmark judgment, the High Court of Australia ruled this week that the Federal Government’s policy of detaining refugees in offshore detention centres is legal. The case was brought by the Human Rights Law Centre, acting for a...
Leader of Pro-Rape Group Wants to Come to Australia
Daryush ‘Roosh’ Valizadeh is a man with very twisted views - he believes ‘a woman’s value significantly depends on her fertility and beauty,’ while ‘a man’s value significantly depends on his resources, intellect, and character’. But most controversially, Valizadeh says...
The Scary Trend in Online Dating
Tinder, the world’s most popular mobile dating app amongst young people right now, describes itself like this: “The people we meet change our lives. A friend, a date, a romance, or even a chance encounter can change someone’s life forever....
‘Making a Murderer’: Is Steven Avery Innocent or Guilty?
Over the Christmas and New Year break, many of us spent precious time with loved ones, eating, drinking, and being merry. Others were glued to their TV screens, binge-watching the Netflix true crime series, Making a Murderer, which was released...
How Frank Sinatra Got Himself into Hot Water
Sexual assault occurs when there is no consent to sex - but did you know sex with a consenting woman was once a crime, if a man used ‘seduction’! Seduction was defined as a man inducing an unmarried woman of...
