Andrew L. Urban
Phillip Boulten, a criminal barrister elevated to the NSW Supreme Court despite a history of criticism of Zionists and police, will primarily handle common law and murder cases, NSW Attorney-General Michael Daley says, in an effort to avoid any “apprehension of bias” in matters related to pro-Palestine protests or demonstration laws. That’s the flimsy defence for Boulten’s elevation. Continue reading
Andrew L. Urban
Even some judges have called for reforms to laws shielding sex abuse claimants (see below) – why has the legal system done nothing about it? Continue reading
With nearly 40,000 verifiable signatures, the petition calling for a judicial inquiry into the contested conviction of Sue Neill-Fraser for the murder of her partner Bob Chappell will be handed Tasmania’s MLC The Hon Meg Webb at the January 24, 2026 rally in Hobart’s Parliament Gardens, with the request to present it to Tasmanian Governor The Hon Barbara Baker AC and Premier Jeremy Rockcliff MP. Continue reading
Andrew L. Urban
The Tasmanian Parole Board last year acted contrary to the High Court’s rulings when it tightened the parole condition on Sue Neill-Fraser, prohibiting her from claiming her innocence of the 2009 murder of Bob Chappel, her former partner. Concerned that the Tasmanian Supreme Court is taking too long to hear a challenge to the new condition from the Human Rights Law Centre in Melbourne on Neill-Fraser’s behalf (lodged in April 2025), we tasked Legal Intel AI (LIA) to research the matter. LIA found the parole condition legally faulty. Continue reading
It was no doubt a shock to Tasmania’s legal establishment when one of its most senior judges delivered a dissenting opinion – not because of his dissent per se, but because he argued to uphold the appeal against the most controversial murder conviction in Tasmanian history – that of Sue Neill-Fraser, a conviction – then as now – protected by the police, prosecution and politicians. He defied the Tasmanian establishment … of which he is a member. Continue reading
Earlier this month, Bike Boy, a 6-epsiode podcast was launched that details how former Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and his wife Catherine caused the car-and-bike crash that almost killed then 15 year old Ryan Mueleman and then scrambled to cover up their culpability. The podcast was released on January 7, marking the 13th anniversary of the fateful crash. The podcast is based on evidence, witness accounts and statements, and official documents; no assertions or accusations are made but it adds to earlier reports, including ones in our sister blog, & here that reveal what really happened. Continue reading
In 2020 artist Anthony Lister’s home was raided by a 23-man task force – including police armed with sub machine guns – who had come to arrest him for sexual assault. They broke down his door before carting him off to the police station to confront hordes of media salivating over this latest #MeToo salvo. The press were given access to photos of him being locked up. But several complainants were confronted with proof that their version of events was untrue, “in devastating cross-examination by Margaret Cunneen SC” reports BETTINA ARNDT. Continue reading
A rally in Hobart Parliament Gardens remembering Bob Chappel and showing support for Sue Neill-Fraser on Saturday, January 24, 2026 will mark the 17th anniversary of Chappell’s disappearance (January 26, 2009). Chappel’s body has never been found; Neill-Fraser was controversially convicted of his murder in 2010. Speakers at the rally: Robert Richter KC, The Hon Meg Webb, MLC (Ind. Nelson), Eve Ash, producer of Shadow of Doubt, Undercurrent and the podcast Who Killed Bob? and Sky Parra, the artist who created Denied: Portraits of Wrongful Convictions. Continue reading
Andrew L. Urban
If a bus carelessly runs over a pedestrian, we rightly expect the driver to call an ambulance – and he or she does so. We also demand that the driver be punished and better trained. The criminal justice system doesn’t take the same attitude when it is claimed* to have wrongfully convicted an accused. The accused becomes roadkill, often still lying by the side of the road years later. The self policing legal system closes ranks, more concerned it seems with protecting its all-important reputation than healing its victims. Continue reading
In April 2015, eight months before Frank Valentine would be interviewed by police and four years before his 2019 trial for sexual assault of teenage girls in the early 1970s, his wife Maris Valentine BA completed a thorough report exposing flaws in the relevant processes of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Sexual Child Sexual Abuse. It was that RC which named him as a perpetrator which ultimately led to him being charged and finally convicted – and eventually imprisoned for 22 years, cut short by his death five years into his sentence. Continue reading