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Flat White

Trial by media sets dangerous precedents

4 December 2017

3:12 PM

4 December 2017

3:12 PM

Australia must avoid delivering justice through ‘trial by media’.

Across the western world, a sweeping phenomenon is now underway to expose current and historical hidden and entrenched sexual misconduct as well as organisational cultures that enable sexual misconduct.

This phenomenon, whose forces have been building overtime, was recently triggered by the Harvey Weinstein revelations.

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