Away from the glare of high-profile trials, defamation law is being used against women who come forward about sexual harassment. There’s little political appetite to fix it.

The chief executive’s departure completes the cleanout of the top levels of an organisation besieged by cultural problems.

Six of the National Anti-Corruption Commission’s current investigations involve the conduct of current or former parliamentarians, according to statistics about its work released on Wednesday.

The judge in the high-profile defamation case described the saga as an “omnishambles” - and the media are included in that.

Just days before Justice Michael Lee was due to pass down his judgement, Network 10 threw another spanner in the works.

Lehrmann is charged with two counts of rape alleged to have occurred in Toowoomba in October 2021.

In this podcast Michelle and politics + society editor Amanda Dunn discuss the WA government scrapping a controversial law, the government's policy on Palestine, and the fallout from the Lehrmann case inquiry.

The report makes ‘several serious findings of misconduct’ against former Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold, but also finds the prosecution was properly brought.

The ACT Attorney-General, Shane Rattenbury, said in a statement on Sunday that he and Drumgold discussed the report and both agreed that his position was no longer tenable.