Former ACT chief prosecutor Shane Drumgold will learn on Monday if a damning report into how he handled Bruce Lehrmann’s prosecution will be struck out after it found he engaged in malpractice and unethical behaviour. D-Day has arrived for the ACT’s former director of public prosecutions, who launched legal actionContinue Reading
A court has been told there is “no evidence” a board of inquiry chair probing Bruce Lehrmann’s rape trial had been “infected” with bias towards the ACT’s former chief prosecutor or read media articles claimed to be “adverse” towards him. Shane Drumgold’s legal fight to overturn a report highly criticalContinue Reading
A range of trendy kitchen benchtops will be pulled from Bunnings shelves in the wake of a damning report about the products links to a fatal disease. The hardware chain will stop selling engineered stone by December 31 following a Safe Work Australia report which recommended the outright ban onContinue Reading
ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold has broken his silence on a damning report into his conduct, declaring he disputes the findings and is disappointed the investigation never bothered to canvass the leaking of Brittany Higgins private text messages to the media. In the letter, Mr Drumgold slams WalterContinue Reading
The Director of Public Prosecutions, Shane Drumgold, “knowingly lied” to the ACT Supreme Court over his purported warning to Lisa Wilkinson over her Logies speech, according to a landmark inquiry. In bombshell findings that are expected to end Mr Drumgold’s tenure as the DPP, the Sofronoff inquiry has made seriousContinue Reading
The Royal Commission into Robodebt will hand down what is expected to be a scathing report about the scheme on Friday, as the man who spearheaded the program holidays with his family in Europe. After receiving more than one million documents and interviewing more than 100 witnesses over nine weeks,Continue Reading
Almost two-thirds of people on income support are struggling to keep their homes cool in sweltering summer temperatures, a damning report from Australia’s peak body for community services has found. The findings, published by the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) on Friday, also reveals the desperate lengths people areContinue Reading
Asia’s richest man has 50 billion problems that didn’t exist three days ago. In the past 72 hours, Indian mining magnate Gautam Adani has watched on his empire plunged by US$50 billion (A$70 billion) in market value. On Wednesday Australian time, US activist investment group Hindenburg Research released a bombshellContinue Reading
National reading and numeracy results have gradually declined over the last five years, and widening inequality is rampant across the country, a damning report into Australia’s education strategies has revealed. The Productivity Commission has given a scathing assessment of the National School Reform Agreement – agreed to by federal, stateContinue Reading
A damning report examining Scott Morrison’s secret power grab is set to be unveiled on Friday and it reveals the former prime minister declined to participate in the inquiry beyond engaging with the former High Court judge Virginia Bell via his lawyers. Outlining the full extent of his decision toContinue Reading