Meaghan Vass was on the yacht, Sue Neill-Fraser was not. OK?

Posted on April 21, 2026 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban

 I just have to share this with readers who may have missed it. In recent weeks, a number of comments have turned up on previous stories about the Sue Neill-Fraser case. It’s been 16 years since the abomination of her trial and wrongful conviction (and she is now out of prison on parole), and still there are those who are obsessed with some aspects of the case. None more vividly than to continue the prosecution’s fevered attempts to ‘keep Vass off the boat’, as I first called in March 2021. The most recent yesterday. The only reason I raise it again is to share my amazement at the repeated but irrational efforts to save the prosecution from the massive embarrassment of having been found out about how this sausage (wrongful conviction) was made. Continue reading →

Posted in Case 01 Sue Neill-Fraser | 7 Comments

A high profile bar for bail?

Posted on April 21, 2026 by andrew

Writing from bitter personal experience after spending 1,400 days on remand, STEVEN FENNELL explains why he should have received bail, especially given the High Court’s indignant, virtually instant quashing of his conviction. Perhaps he wasn’t sufficiently high profile – like Ben Roberts-Smith?  Continue reading →

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Crimen exceptum – sex crime allegations a challenge for justice and society

Posted on April 20, 2026 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban

Dealing with tendency evidence in my book Presumption of Evil about the Noel Greenaway conviction (arguably wrongful) for historical sexual abuse, I refer to another man who was convicted of sexual abuse on tendency evidence. He and Greenaway (and Frank Valentine, my sequel to Presumption of Evil) are not the only ones, of course. Tendency evidence is the iceberg in the path of HMS Justice Titanic.  Continue reading →

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Ben Roberts-Smith & Justice Besanko at a fork in the road

Posted on April 18, 2026 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban

 Roberts-Smith’s central position in evidence at the 2003 defamation trial was that the newspaper allegations were false and that all killings he was involved in were lawful engagements with insurgents during combat operations in Afghanistan. He denied murdering prisoners or ordering unlawful killings. But Justice Besanko rejected significant parts of Roberts-Smith’s account and found that several allegations of unlawful killings were proven to the civil standard of proof. He also found Roberts-Smith was not a reliable witness in some respects and that parts of his testimony were untruthful. It was a fateful fork in the road that leads to the criminal trial.  Continue reading →

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Special Forces Operator Scott Jones: The Truth About Ben Roberts-Smith – the transcript

Posted on April 17, 2026 by andrew

Hosted by Sam Bamford, a former Australian Army infantry paratrooper and combat veteran with a deployment to Afghanistan in 2012, the 2 Worlds Collide Podcast has evolved into one of Australia’s most outspoken independent platforms. In this must-see episode, Special Forces Operator Scott Jones recounts his first-hand experiences near and alongside Ben Roberts-Smith. This is the edited transcript.  Continue reading →

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Prosecutors at top of wish-list to minimise wrongful convictions

Posted on April 16, 2026 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban

 Wielding more power than judges and enjoying professional immunity, some Crown prosecutors fail to act in accordance with the responsibilities that come with that power. Any attempt to improve the legal system should start by enforcing the existing guidelines. That’s up to the prosecutors themselves and judges – but judges can intervene only after misconduct becomes visible. Continue reading →

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Special Forces Operator Scott Jones: The Truth About Ben Roberts-Smith

Posted on April 15, 2026 by andrew

Hosted by Sam Bamford, a former Australian Army infantry paratrooper and combat veteran with a deployment to Afghanistan in 2012, the 2 Worlds Collide Podcast has evolved into one of Australia’s most outspoken independent platforms. In this must-see episode, Special Forces Operator Scott Jones recounts his first-hand experiences near and alongside Ben Roberts-Smith. Be prepared to be astonished.  Continue reading →

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The Crown’s catastrophic non-disclosure in Derek Bromley case

Posted on April 14, 2026 by andrew

The incoming DPP in  South Australia (to be appointed shortly) will inherit the scandalous miscarriage of justice perpetrated – repeatedly – by the Crown itself. In his tireless fight for Derek Bromley, wrongfully convicted but officially a murderer thanks to the non-disclosure, Flinders University legal academic Dr Bob Moles has (again) written to The Premier and the Attorney-General to call for corrective action over “this appalling state of affairs”. Moles shares details from his letter with our readers below.  Continue reading →

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A devil’s dilemma for Ben Roberts-Smith: trial or stay

Posted on April 13, 2026 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban

 Risk a prejudice-tainted guilty verdict or apply for a permanent stay of proceedings due to prejudicial publicity. These are his only (lose-lose) options. It is a devil’s dilemma.  Continue reading →

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Australia’s criminal courts have become a financial meat grinder for the average citizen; a personal account

Posted on April 12, 2026 by andrew

It’s not enough to be innocent of the charges … In this frank and fascinating personal two-part account, Steven Fennell, who fought relentlessly to have his wrongful murder conviction overturned, lays out the brutal reality of a legal system in which the first major hurdle is money. But there are others … 
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Posted in Case 10 Steven Fennell, Case 11 Robert Xie, Case 17 Kathleen Folbigg, Case 18 Bruce Lehrmann | 4 Comments