In the Media,
2016-2018
Through The Years
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Police pursue ‘active’ leads’ into William Tyrrell’s disappearance – 21/12/2018
William Tyrrell disappeared more than 4 years ago without a trace, but the Coroner’s Court heard there is a chance he’s still alive.
The Sydney Morning Herald – NSW Police searching ‘active leads’ into William Tyrrell’s disappearance
‘Cult leader’ ordered to pay blogger’s legal costs – 07/12/2018
The Sydney Morning Herald – Cult Leader uses defamation case to inflict pain on blogger
Principal Solicitor Peter O’Brien interviewed on Channel 7 news- 07/11/2018
Peter O’Brien speaking at an SBS Forum on Juvenile Justice.
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in the Newcastle Anglican diocese- 23/11/2016
Peter O’Brien questions former Newcastle dean Graeme Lawrence during the Royal Commission.
O’Brien puts it to Lawrence that others have said he was a paedophile.
“I totally reject that,” Lawrence says.
He denies being questioned in 1997 about allegations against him and has denied the evidence of others that he was the person at the end of a child sexual abuse hotline run by the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle.
“I was not handling a hotline,” Lawrence said.
O’Brien: “You were the fox in charge of the hen house.”
“No.”
“You were protecting priests from allegations of child sexual abuse.”
“I did not.”
Asked whether he had “any inclination” to either a priest or a complainant” in any matter, Lawrence said: “I don’t recall any approaches.”
Read the full blog from Day 15 of the Royal Commission in the Newcastle Herald here.
Solicitor Stewart O’ Connell featuring in the Serge Benhayon Defamation case- 23/10/2018
Self-styled healer Serge Benhayon leads ‘socially harmful cult’: jury
SMH – Self-styled healer Serge Benhayon leads ‘socially harmful cult’: jury
Northern Star – Defamation loss for universal medicine founder
Aboriginal boy sues Alice Springs newspaper for defamation
ABC Media Watch – NT newspaper settles after using Indigenous child as the face of youth crime
The Guardian – Centralian Advocate settles out of court over front-age photo of Aboriginal boy
@IndigenousX – NT Defamation Case in Supreme Court
Bail granted for client
SMH – Man accused of killing intruder granted bail for second time
Dylan Voller & Jake Roper’s Civil claim against NT government
SBS News – Don Dale inmates paid $100k for abuse
Interview with Dylan Voller
SMH – Dylan Voller told 60 Minutes he felt he was ‘going mad’ in NT youth detention
60 Minutes – Dylan Voller reveals his side of the story that shocked the nation
Northern Territory Royal Commission
ABC News – Lawyers at Royal Commission into NT youth detention include actor, solicitors-general
ABC News – Peter O’Brien: Justice reinvestment an opportunity for Australia to be better as a nation
ABC News – Royal Commission: Youth officer ‘indifferent to basic human needs’ of teen inmate
Abuse of young people at Don Dale
News.com.au – Dylan Voller, photographed in restraints and a spit hood, was football-loving teenager
Triple J – Same guards in the charge of former Don Dale prisoner lawyer says
Peter O’Brien’s cross-examination of Cardinal George Pell during the Abuse Royal Commission, March 2016
Cardinal George Pell testifies from Rome for Abuse Royal Commission: day four
