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AT The Daily Telegraph we pride ourselves on standing up for ordinary, honest Australians who need someone on their side — the battlers, the downtrodden, the bullied, the victims of crime and those dealt a bad hand through no fault of their own.
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AT The Daily Telegraph we pride ourselves on standing up for ordinary, honest Australians who need someone on their side.
We’re for the battlers, the downtrodden, the bullied, the victims of crime and those dealt a bad hand through no fault of their own.
Over the years our reporters have tirelessly taken up the cause of people betrayed, dudded, doublecrossed, fobbed off and ripped off by the unscrupulous and the uncaring.
We go hard after the powers-that-be in pursuit of truth and justice. We go into bat for hardworking families.
We give a voice to the voiceless. We campaign for positive change and restitution.
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Victims of crime often get a raw deal from the criminal justice system and it’s always been a tenet of the Tele that their interests and those of their families should be at the forefront of the minds of our police, politicians, MPs and magistrates.
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It took six years for justice to be served after Lynette Daley’s death on an isolated beach in northern NSW as the Director of Public Prosecutions refused to lay charges against the two men a police investigation had identified as responsible.
The Tele’s Chief Reporter Janet Fife-Yeomans relentlessly pursued the case on behalf of Lynette’s family. Her front page stories gave Lynette a face, restored her dignity and woke public interest in her fate.
Eventually a wrong was put right. The decision not to lay charges was reversed, the perpetrators were found guilty and were sentenced to lengthy jail terms, and importantly the DPP and Attorney-General apologised to the family for justice delayed.
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The Tele was also responsible for highlighting the case of Girl X, a troubled 15 year old who repeatedly raped by a youth worker in a residential foster care home in a shocking abuse of power.
Even though her death from a drug overdose meant the trial could not proceed, our stories campaigned for reform in residential care facilities so her death would not be in vain.
The result was an extra $90 million for programs to safeguard vulnerable children, including multiple weekly visits for family counselling and drug clinics.
A number of suspect residential group homes were also closed to ensure others did not suffer Girl X’s fate.
Then there was the case of Miriam Merten whose treatment and death in Lismore Hospital, as exposed by the Telegraph, seemed straight out of the 18th century.
Distressing video footage we brought to light showed how the seriously ill woman was drugged and dumped in the hospital’s seclusion wing and struck her head at least 20 times before she succumbed to brain injuries.
That this could occur in a government run hospital in this day and age seemed scarcely believable.
The ramifications of the Tele’s reporting by Anthony DeCeglie and Annabel Hennessy were far-reaching.
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Two powerful inquiries were initiated and state and federal governments acknowledged Miriam’s ordeal as a turning point and increased funding to improve the treatment of mentally ill patients — a legacy the Tele was proud to have helped bring about.
Standing up for our readers has always been a feature of our paper. It’s part of our DNA. And it always will be.
Janet Fife-Yeomans is Chief Court Reporter for The Daily Telegraph
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