Leading lawyer says women have almost no chance of seeing abusers convicted
Morning everyone. The probability of a rape victim seeing her abuser convicted and punished is less than 1%, a prominent lawyer has said, meaning the crime is “effectively decriminalised” in Australia. As we launch our investigative series Broken Justice, a rape survivor describes her struggle in the justice system.
Officials say they are expecting no survivors from a collision between a passenger plane and a military helicopter in Washington DC as Donald Trump tries to blame diversity programs.
And the Albanese government faces a fight to get some key legislation passed as parliament returns, while “Swinging Sixties” musician Marianne Faithfull has died aged 78.
Newsroom edition: from Musk’s Doge to Dutton’s Smoge, the Coalition eyes public service cuts
Bridie Jabour talks to editor-in-chief Lenore Taylor and deputy editor Patrick Keneally about the threats to the public service from Peter Dutton and finding facts during an election campaign.
Newsroom edition: from Musk’s Doge to Dutton’s Smoge, the Coalition eyes public service cuts
Donald Trump appeared to blame diversity policies for the Washington DC plane crash when he turned a media briefing on the disaster into a rant about the failures of the Biden administration. Follow the story live. Officials in Washington DC said they do not expect to find any survivors after a domestic passenger jet with 64 people on board collided over the Potomac River with a military helicopter carrying three soldiers. Passengers on the American Airlines flight included two world champion Russian figure skaters. Here’s a visual guide to what happened.
In his new book You Must Remember This, Sean Wilson writes about dementia from the point of view of Grace, an elderly sufferer whom we see at different stages of her life – young girl, teenager, wife, widow. It is at times a “hauntingly beautiful” book, writes Joseph Cummins.
A rabbi tells the Sydney Morning Herald some of his community are too frightened to go outside and have considered leaving Australia. The Age reports “thousands” of extra police have been deployed in Melbourne after a spate of antisemitic attacks. A “monster tropical low” has dropped a metre of rain in north Queensland and is now menacing the south of the state, the Courier Mail warns. There’s excitement at the NT News after Peter Dutton said the territory would be a perfect place for Donald Trump to visit.
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