Almost immediately I began to get intensely pressured about the contents of my columns, not from anyone within ATL, but from the partnership at the law firm where I was then employed. My God, what if someone realized their lawyer wasn't the intellectual equivalent of a genital-less Ken doll and was instead a real, live person with agency who actually had opinions about things?
Andrew Greene has been the ABC's defence correspondent for the past 10 years since joining the broadcaster in 2010. In June, the ABC confirmed it was investigating serious allegations that Greene filed a story about a German shipbuilder, ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, without disclosing that he had travelled to Germany courtesy of the company, which was hoping to win lucrative Australian navy contracts.
Mrs Justice Steyn's judgment is about power and complicity as well as the failure to protect vulnerable people. In her verdict, she agreed with the Guardian that there were strong grounds to believe that [Clarke] is a serial abuser of women. The court heard testimony from 26 witnesses before concluding that Clarke had engaged in harassment, bullying and abuse of power over many years. The judge accepted some of his evidence, but found him to be neither credible or reliable.
In a recent podcast, Bill Murray expressed his enduring disappointment with Bob Woodward's portrayal of John Belushi in the controversial biography 'Wired', stemming from a lack of sensitivity towards Belushi's struggles.