Michaela Whitbourn
Legal Affairs Reporter at Sydney Morning Herald
Legal affairs reporter at The Sydney Morning Herald. Connoisseur of fine puns. She/her [email protected]
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3 days ago |
stuff.co.nz | Amy Ridout |Poppy Clark |Michaela Whitbourn |Jim Mustian
The city of Tulsa, home to one of the most horrifying racial-terror massacres in US history and the people who tried to cover it up, has announced a US$105 million reparations package that will put dollars and actions toward redress.
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1 week ago |
smh.com.au | Clare Sibthorpe |Michaela Whitbourn
By Clare Sibthorpe and Michaela Whitbourn May 27, 2025 — 6.04pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Kiama MP Gareth Ward allegedly raped a 24-year-old man at his Potts Point apartment after an event in NSW parliament, and indecently assaulted an 18-year-old man on the South Coast, a jury has heard.
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2 weeks ago |
smh.com.au | Michaela Whitbourn
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Ben Roberts-Smith’s actions in killing an unarmed man with a prosthetic leg were so dramatic as to suggest “a certain recklessness or perhaps even brazenness”, a court has said as it dismissed his high-stakes appeal against a decision that found he committed war crimes in Afghanistan.
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3 weeks ago |
smh.com.au | Michaela Whitbourn
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. An appeal court has rejected an attack made by Ben Roberts-Smith’s lawyers on the credibility of the star reporter at the centre of the former soldier’s multimillion-dollar defamation battle.
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3 weeks ago |
watoday.com.au | Michaela Whitbourn |Sarah McPhee
The appeal hearing ran for 10 days in February last year, following a 110-day trial and a 726-page judgment, and the parties had been awaiting the decision for more than a year. The appeal court noted that Besanko had found the newspapers had proven on the balance of probabilities that Roberts-Smith “had committed, or was complicit in and responsible for murder, on three different missions”. “These were murders because his Honour was satisfied, contrary to [Roberts-Smith’s] ...
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RT @dkrolph: Why a multimillion-dollar legal boom is running out of steam #auslaw #defamation https://t.co/LePsMFVRt9
I read every word and cried a bit too. Thank you Rick for being a top-drawer human who puts empathy at the centre of journalism - not ego.
My modern history teacher, the NDIS and me. More than two decades (!!) after our final class, the one where she taught us the art of critical thinking, I'm trying to help her against the bureaucratic machine following her husband's death. https://t.co/ywipFQ3GWX
RT @dkrolph: The Sydney juror, the murder trial and the employer’s threats #auslaw #contempt https://t.co/L5IhgR3o3G