Safe Work NSW is making enquiries about untested allegations of bullying, censorship, and ‘serious maladministration’ levelled at the office of chief prosecutor Sally Dowling SC.
Less than half of the NSW prosecution office feels favourably towards the senior executive team, an all-staff survey has revealed, as hundreds of staff indicate they are subject to unmanageable stress.
The growing rift between the NSW judiciary and the state’s top prosecutor has been dramatically laid bare with a senior judge alleging Sally Dowling tried to ‘exert influence’ over the judiciary and engaged in ‘ethically questionable’ behaviour.
Members of a fringe group that took down a billion dollar gold mine privately lobbied Labor ministers and senators to oppose a motion by the Coalition that might have saved the project.
A fringe Indigenous group responsible for toppling a billion-dollar gold mine wrote to Linda Burney accusing the local Aboriginal land council of seeking ‘financial support’ from miner Regis Resources and of ‘not consisting of traditional owners’.
Ten has been dealt a massive blow in Bruce Lehrmann’s appeal of the landmark defamation ruling that found he raped Brittany Higgins in parliament house.
Susie Richardson, who worked at the leading workplace injury firm for nearly a decade, is suing it over allegations she was bullied, belittled and harassed by her boss, who said her work was ‘the standard of a paralegal’.
A review into Australia’s rape laws has praised a national shift towards affirmative consent models that require less ‘scrutiny’ of complainants in courts, and see greater prosecutions of nuanced sexual violence cases.
More than 200,000 claimants suing BHP in a $17bn lawsuit have already been compensated for damage caused amid the Mariana dam disaster, the Australian mining giant will tell a London court.
The network has won its bid to suppress ‘embarrassing’ documents filed by former Spotlight producer Amelia Saw, after a Federal Court judge ruled their release could imperil mediation.
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