Higgins denies attempt to ‘blow up’ rape retrial
Brittany Higgins has rejected assertions a speech she gave after the jury was discharged in Bruce Lehrmann's criminal case was designed to derail a retrial.
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Stricter detention laws loom as sex offender arrested
Released immigration detainees who pose a serious risk to the community face being locked back up as new laws clear the Senate.
Higgins denies fabricating Parliament House rape claim
Brittany Higgins has stood by her claim she was sexually assaulted on a federal minister's couch and denied suggestions she lied about it to keep her job.
Bruise may not have been from alleged rape: Higgins
Brittany Higgins has been quizzed over a bruise allegedly sustained on the night of her claimed rape at Parliament House in Canberra.
Parliamentary rape was no fabrication, says Higgins
Brittany Higgins has stood by her claim she was sexually assaulted on a federal minister's couch, calling insulting a suggestion the allegation was fabricated.
Accused nursing home rapist jailed for similar crime
A NSW politician has used parliamentary privilege to claim a nursing home resident's alleged rapist was previously jailed over a similar crime.
Brittany Higgins to be grilled over rape allegation
Lawyers for ex-Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann will cross-examine Brittany Higgins over a claim she was raped while passed out on a federal minister's couch.
Higgins says she couldn’t scream during alleged rape
Brittany Higgins has detailed her alleged rape by Bruce Lehrmann and criticised the government response while testifying at his Federal Court defamation trial.
Higgins takes stand in Bruce Lehrmann defamation case
Brittany Higgins has stepped into the witness box in a Federal Court defamation case brought by Bruce Lehrmann against Network Ten.
Lehrmann sought cocaine after rape claim broadcast
Bruce Lehrmann says he sought hard drugs after watching a report on The Project where Brittany Higgins outlined her shock allegation of sexual assault.
‘Rough and forceful’ rape did not happen, says Lehrmann
Bruce Lehrmann has again denied sexually assaulting Brittany Higgins as she was unconscious or semi-conscious on a federal minister's couch.
Ex-Labor MP lured boys for sex with drugs, money
Former politician and convicted pedophile Milton Orkopoulos will spend the next decade behind bars for serious sex crimes against young boys.
Bruce Lehrmann back in the stand to fight rape claim
Bruce Lehrmann will return to the witness box for a fourth day as he fights a "defamatory" Ten report he raped Brittany Higgins in Parliament House.
Setback for Lisa Wilkinson in Lehrmann defamation case
A judge has limited what Lisa Wilkinson can ask Bruce Lehrmann through her barrister as he sues for defamation over a report on Brittany Higgins' rape claims.
Consistency call for early uni offers, assault handling
Education ministers are looking at national standards covering how universities offer early placements and handle sexual assault complaints.
‘Absolutely not’: Lehrmann denies Higgins rape
Bruce Lehrmann has vehemently denied raping Brittany Higgins in a Parliament House ministerial office, instead claiming it was an "innocuous night".
‘I have to kill my kids’ father to survive’: Setka’s ex
Union heavyweight John Setka's estranged wife said, in video played to court, she wanted to get a firearm because she had to kill him "to survive".
Network Ten ‘utterly destroyed’ Lehrmann’s reputation
Ex-Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann says he was sent into a "deep spiral" mentally because of a defamatory report by The Project on Brittany Higgins' rape claims.
Man charged with ‘horrendous’ attack on elderly woman
A man has been charged over the sexual assault of a 90-year-old woman after allegedly breaking into an aged-care facility on the NSW Central Coast.
Hospitals issued historic rape victim care directive
Queensland's Health Minister Shannon Fentiman has issued an historic directive requiring public hospitals to assist rape victims within 10 minutes.
Swim coach jailed for 32 years over child abuse culture
Swim coach Paul Frost who sexually abused 11 students for more than a decade has been jailed for up to 32 years for normalising horrifying behaviour.
‘I began to despise teachers’ victim tells abuse probe
Child sex abuse survivors have detailed their experiences at an inquiry into historical abuse at Victorian primary schools.
Men spared jail for ‘devastating’ sexual assault
Two people who sexually assaulted another man while he slept have walked free from court after a judge accepted they were remorseful.
Legal system ‘earthquake’ as AFL club to pay out $6m
A jury has awarded a child abuse survivor almost $6 million, finding the AFL's Western Bulldogs were negligent in giving a pedophile special access to the boy.
Rape-accused Lehrmann given weeks to review police data
Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann's charges have been heard for first time since the Queensland Supreme Court ruled that he could be publicly identified.
Court blocks name of TV personality facing sex charges
A TV personality charged with multiple counts of indecent treatment of children, rape, sexual assault, torture and assaults cannot be identified.
Court rules Lehrmann can be named as rape accused
Bruce Lehrmann has been revealed as a previously unnamed man charged with rape in Queensland, after facing trial in Canberra for assaulting Brittany Higgins.
Fear, shame, anger: child abuse inquiry hears of agony
A Victorian inquiry is examining historical allegations of child sexual abuse at 24 government schools as survivors describe their fear and powerlessness.
Order of Australia recipient not guilty of stealth-rape
A Victorian jury has found a Sydney dermatologist not guilty of raping another man in a Melbourne home.
Former ‘first bloke’ convicted of sexual assault
Tim Mathieson, the ex-partner of former prime minister Julia Gillard, has been convicted and fined $7000 after he sexually assaulted a friend.
Footy club ‘should have known’ about brutal abuse
Lawyers for a man suing the Western Bulldogs over the abuse he experienced at the hands of a pedophile claim the club ought to have known about it.