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It began with a man, and then a boy.
The massacre at Bondi Junction. And the stabbing of a bishop during a Wakeley church service.
Both horrific actions were captured in real time, and the images of the knife, of the death, the horror the shock and the grief, then broadcast to the world.
The mainstream media showed what they needed to amid the strict controls which govern what can be shown by an Australian media company.
On social media – no such control.
Australia’s e-safety commissioner stood up and called for those images - to be taken down. X, formerly known as Twitter, refused.
Dr Dana McKay, Associate Dean of Interaction, Technology and Information in the School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University joins host Tim Clarke to walk through the Government vs Goliath legal battle currently playing out in the Federal Court.
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Just after 2am on October 12, 2023 an ambulance raced to WA’s main maximum security prison Casuarina.
A 16-year-old boy had self-harmed inside his cell at the notorious Unit 18 – the juvenile facility located within the grounds of the adult prison.
The teen was rushed to hospital where was put on life support. One week later, surrounded by family, he took his final breath.
After his death was grief. From his family, his friends and the community.
But there was also outrage. How could this happen? Calls for change became deafening shouts.
An inquiry was held and the revelations uncovered shocked the state.
That boy’s name was Cleveland Dodd.
Senior reporter Rebecca LeMay joins host Tim Clarke to walk through the Coronial inquest into Cleveland’s death.
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Kimberley Heptinstall was 32, the life of party. Everyone’s friend.
She and her partner Travis Barnard met online and got engaged in June 2017.
Until, after a planned elective surgery, Kim lost her life. Suddenly, tragically.
The loss devastated her family. And left her partner bereaved, and apparently grieving.
What Barnard did on the day his partner died in 2019 led him into court this week.
Actions that to anyone who has lost someone too young are hard to hear, and hard to believe.
Criminal lawyer Damien Cripps joins Tim Clarke to discuss all aspects of the case.
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Blood, violence and death seem to follow the name Edhouse.
Father and son Andrew and Robert are both bikies and linked to a string of gruesome crimes – including the disappearance of Kalgoorlie woman Lisa Govan.
Andrew Edhouse, one of WA’s most notorious bikies in the late 90s, was a member of one of the “most secretive” bikie clubs in Australia - the Club Deroes.
In the late 1990s Perth was in the grip of a war between the Club Deroes and the Coffin Cheaters.
One casualty was Coffin Cheater Marc Chabriere, shot dead in his car in Welshpool. Edhouse was accused of his murder but later found not guilty.
The son, Robert Edhouse was also a bikie - the Perth leader of a group called Aryan Nations.
The neo-nazi was convicted along with his lover Melanie Attwood of the brutal murder of her ex-partner Alan Taylor in 2016. A crime Harvey describes as “full metal psycho behaviour”.
The West Australian's chief reporter and Up Late host Ben Harvey joins host Tim Clarke to explore the violent worlds of two members of one family, which collided in one shocking courtroom outburst.
And could come together again before a coroner in a few short months.
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It started as a way to create memories to last a lifetime. An experienced pilot, two excited 12-year-old girls and a family friend on a joy flight over Broome’s iconic coastline.
But it quickly turned into every parent’s worst nightmare as the Robinson R44 Raven chopper plunged to the ground seconds after take-off, right in front of their loved ones eyes.
On board that flight was award-winning tourism operator and Broome identity Troy Thomas, his daughter Mia, her school friend Amber Millar and education assistant and friend of the families Maddison Down.
Troy, who was piloting the helicopter and Amber were killed. Mia and Maddison left clinging to life.
A community was in shock and an investigation began.
What it revealed would shock the tourism industry and leave Amber Millar’s grieving family desperate for answers.
The Nightly’s investigative journalist Kristen Shorten joins Tim Clarke to unpack the case.
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Versace is a name dripped with glamour, and wealth, and glitz, and fame.
But the reality of the death of a man who bore it was a lot grimier than the Italian fashion house which made it famous.
Joseph Rodney Versace. A man with bikie links. Shot in the head. Dead – in a shed, north of Perth.
The gunman, Joshua Duperouzel, also with bikie links, made his escape in a black Beemer with the number plate ‘666’.
And he stayed on the run for days, before turning himself in the most bizarre way.
Former court reporter for Seven News Perth Syan Vallance joins host Tim Clarke to break down the case of The State of Western Australia vs Joshua Colin Duperouzel.
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It’s the case that’s dominated the Australian consciousness.
The alleged murders of a couple – Jesse Baird and Luke Davies – by another man. A NSW cop. Beau Lamarre-Condon.
A double homicide, in Jesse’s home. In cold blood. With a gun, that was police issue.
Jesse Baird was allegedly Mr-Lamarre Condon’s obsession. A love interest spurned, which has allegedly led to the unthinkable.
Seven Network senior reporter Robert Ovadia joins Tim Clarke to discuss the case.
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Peter Greste – the journalist who spent more than a year locked up in an Egyptian prison – has said the Australian government took too long to finally call for the release and return of Julian Assange.
Assange took his final appeal against extradition to the United States to the UK’s highest court this week – a last bid to stop him being sent across the Atlantic to face espionage charges.
Those charges stem from the Wikileaks releases of hundreds of thousands of US military documents in 2010 and 2011.
And since then, Assange has fought off allegations that he put lives at risk with his online leaks, alongside allegations of sexual assault against two women in Sweden.
The Swedish allegations fell away as Assange hid away in Ecuador’s embassy in London.
But the US have never gone away, and this week argued that Assange should be sent to their country to face their justice system.
Greste joins host Tim Clarke to discuss the many intricacies of this long-running case.
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It’s a spin-off from the original drama Brittany Higgins versus Bruce Lehrmann.
Veteran TV presenter Lisa Wilkinson took on her former employer Network 10 over her decision to get her own lawyers. And over what those lawyers cost.
It all stems from the interview Wilkinson conducted with Higgins on The Project in 2021, where Lehrmann was accused of rape.
And that Logies speech, which forced the delay of the criminal trial of Lehrmann.
There was more explosive testimony from Wilkinson, revealing the inner workings of the TV station, in a bid to make her former employers pay.
Jenna Clarke, associate editor of The Australian joins host Tim Clarke to discuss the latest spin-off in the case that has consumed Canberra and Australia’s media.
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He was one of the biggest figures in Melbourne’s Underbelly. She was his lawyer. And, as it turns out, the biggest snitch of all.
Tony Mokbel is widely regarded as the organiser of Melbourne’s methamphetamine business.
And in 2006 he became Australia’s most wanted man, escaping the country on a yacht bound for Greece. He was caught a year later, wearing what would become the most famous wig in Australian crime.
Beside him through all of it was Nicola Gobbo. A prominent Melbourne lawyer she acted for many of the underworld, including Carl Williams.
But unbeknown to them, she was simultaneously acting for another- Melbourne Police.
Years of informing on her clients earned her the nickname Lawyer X and the police several high-profile collars.
But she couldn’t stay secret for long. The scandal rocked Australia. Criminals started appealing convictions, on the basis Gobbo’s evidence was tainted.
Including Mokbel, in court this month appealing his sentence for serious drug charges.
Criminal lawyer Katherine Dowling joins Tim Clarke to comb through the history of Tony Mokbel and his extraordinary claims about the lawyer who used to defend him.
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On October 1, 2000 two shots rang out in the darkness in the middle of nowhere.
The handful of Gypsy Jokers sitting around a campfire near the pub in the tiny Goldfields town of Ora Banda hit the deck.
One wasn’t so lucky. Billy Grierson caught a bullet in the chest and bled to death.
The owner of the pub, former CIB detective Don Hancock insisted he had nothing to do with the death.
The Jokers were not convinced.
Bombing after bombing followed Griersons death. Hancock refused witness protection.
And then came the act that rocked the State & changed WA forever.
The West Australian’s bikie whisperer, chief reporter and host of Up Late, Ben Harvey, joins Tim Clarke to dissect the murder of Billy Grierson, and the terrifying fallout which followed.
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A decorated policeman is revealed to be a murderer.
Detective Roger Rogerson was once a legend of the NSW police force.
He scooped up robbers, shot up bad boys, solved murders and never said sorry.
But as it turned out, he was as corrupt as they came. And even committed murders himself.
Roger Rogerson died on January 21, 2024 aged 83, after suffering a brain aneurysm in his cell at Long Bay prison in Sydney.
With his death one of the most notorious law enforcement chapters in Australian history was finally buried, along with many secrets.
Tim Clarke is joined by author and former detective Duncan McNab to detail Rogerson’s spectacular fall from grace.
And how he became known as the most corrupt police officer the nation has ever known.
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It’s the contentious murder investigation everyone has an opinion about.
Lloyd Patrick Rayney vs The State of Western Australia.
One of the most scrutinized murder trials in living memory ended with Mr Rayney being acquitted of the murder, and manslaughter of his wife Corryn.
Mr Rayney also won one of the biggest defamation payouts in Australian legal history AGAINST the WA Police.
In part 2 of our series on Lloyd Rayney, Former British Detective Superintendent Robin Napper joins host Tim Clarke to talk about the fallout of the multiple court cases.
And share their theories about what happened the night of August 7, 2007.
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It’s a case that rocked WA’s legal community and etched itself into the State’s memory.
A toxic marriage on the rocks, allegations of phone tapping, gambling, cheating and murder.
Multiple court cases. A family in pieces.
On the evening of August 7, 2007, Corryn Rayney, a Supreme Court registrar and mother of two, went boot scooting. She was never seen again.
A week later after a tip from the public, her body was discovered buried in Kings Park.
Rumours spread like wildfire through Perth. Her husband, prominent lawyer Lloyd Rayney became the police’s number one suspect.
Their “prime suspect” as Detective Jack Lee told the media. It took a year before he was charged with her murder.
What happened next, was truly astonishing.
Former British Detective Superintendent Robin Napper joins host Tim Clarke to cut through the case of the State of Western Australia vs Lloyd Patrick Rayney.
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There are plenty of fish in the sea, so the saying goes. But looking for love online can sometimes be a terrifying and dangerous experience.
Just ask one of the Perth victims of “campaigns of terror and punishment” at the hands of a serial dating app stalker.
Adam Geoffrey Rybicki looked like any other young man looking for love on apps like Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, Red Hot Pie, WhatsApp, Snapchat Instagram and Facebook.
Exchanges began innocently enough, but at the first sign of rejection, the 33-year-old would “flip out” and begin bombarding his victims, subjecting them to a reign of terror.
In the last episode for 2023, The West Australian's court reporter Sarah Steger joins host Tim Clarke, to tell him how she broke the story and found herself the target of Rybicki's vitriol.
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The Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial continues and this week has featured the most explosive evidence from the woman who conducted the interview with Brittany Higgins.
Journalist, editor, presenter and author Lisa Wilkinson.
She, along with her employer Network Ten, are being sued by Mr Lehrmann, who alleges they defamed him with that piece on The Project in February 2021.
She, and they deny they did, on two grounds. Qualified privilege – that is they did all could to ensure what they aired was accurate.
And truth – that Mr Lehrmann did rape Ms Higgins in the office of Senator Linda Reynolds after a drunken night out in March 2019.
Media intersecting with the law and politics, colliding with a media superstar – with layers of #MeToo on top.
Jenna Clarke, associate editor of The Australian – who now writes about media daily but has spent many days in the Canberra bubble- joins host Tim Clarke to pick through the week’s revelations of Bruce Emery Lehrmann vs Network Ten Pty Ltd and Lisa Wilkinson.
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Stewart Sinclair Gorham is 54-years-old. In the last 33 years, he has only spent 100 days in the community. The rest have been spent in prison, locked up for truly hideous crimes.
His history is so bad, that even he says he should never again be released from prison.
He may well be Western Australia’s most dangerous man.
Join host Tim Clarke and one of Australia's leading legal minds Tom Percy KC as they outline Gorham’s vile history and his terrifying plan to ensure that if he is released, he winds up either dead, or back behind bars.
Plus, they explore the controversial and continuing debate over detaining people after their sentences are served -- and whether a balance is being struck between protecting the public and punishing beyond the pale.
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It was meant to be the trip of a lifetime for Perth mother Avril Croft and her teenage daughter, sailing around Australia on a yacht.
Instead they were murdered – and their bodies dumped into shark and croc infested waters.
Garry Whitsed was charged with strangling his lover, shooting her daughter and disposing of the bodies to cover up his horrible crimes.
And he came up with an incredible tale of how he said they died.
Without the bodies, police and prosecutors had to prove that Whitsed’s explanation was a pack of lies.
Tim Clarke is joined by Dr Claire Ferguson - Associate Professor at the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology – a specialist in cases where there’s been a murder, but no body is found.
And she delves into the difficulties of proving such cases – and what the history of them tells us about the perpetrators and the police who hunt them down.
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It's a case that sent shockwaves around Australia and has captured the imagination of a nation for almost three years.
And the bombshells have kept on coming in the latest instalment - a defamation trial brought by Bruce Lehrmann in Sydney's Federal court this week.
It's a complex he said, she said case. And the job of the judge to get to the bottom of the matter, according to specialist defamation and media lawyer Nick Stagg, co-founder and principal of law firm Steedman Stagg.
He joins legal affairs editor Tim Clarke, to walk him through the first week of this explosive trial.
The case began in 2021, when The Project aired an interview with Brittany Higgins, a young parliamentary staffer who alleged she had been raped by a colleague in Parliament House.
Her alleged rapist was not named, but according to him, and later his high-powered and highly paid legal team, anyone who knew him could put the clues together and come up with his name.
The allegations set off a chain of events that had a seismic impact at the highest level of politics, the Liberal party and the law.
A criminal prosecutor of Mr Lehrmann went ahead in Canberra, but fell apart in spectacular fashion last year.
And now, it's Mr Lehrmann making the allegations - that Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson defamed him in the most serious of ways.
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It’s been more than 5 years since a Canberra toddler named Safa Annour died in a suspected murder. There have been no arrests, no answers, no justice. No closure.
Safa was a striking, smiling little two-year old girl. Her eyes twinkling. And her happy little wave to the bus driver who dropped her off on Monday April 30, 2018, would melt your heart.
That very same day, at just before 2pm, Safa was taken to the Canberra Hospital with horrific injuries. Which killed her.
It was a case that should have had all of Australia talking. But it was 6 months before anyone found out about the little girl’s death.
The West Australian’s Dan Jervis-Bardy has made it his mission to find out what happened to Safa.
He walks host Tim Clarke through the mysterious case, because someone, somewhere knows something.
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