Legal columnist HUGH SELBY offers a spirited response to an opinion column by Kelly Saunders in which she posed the question over a defendant's right to silence in a sexual assault prosecution. Selby argues she's wrong...
An 80-year-old man has been charged with the sexual assault of an 87-year-old woman at a Sydney aged care facility.
If you were an honest complainant in a rape matter, or an accused wrongly charged, how would you feel about your life being put on hold for two years? HUGH SELBY says there are better, faster ways of handling sexual assault claims.
A 31-year-old man is facing 19 charges relating to alleged sexual assaults and other offences following his arrest on Saturday.
Police want to identify two women who assisted a 17-year-old girl who was allegedly sexually assaulted in Civic.
New rules mean workplaces must notify the work health and safety regulator, WorkSafe ACT, of sexual incidents that occur at work, from Friday.
A 36-year-old Holt man is facing court charged with reckless sexual intercourse without consent and breach of good behaviour obligations.
A 50-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly repeatedly sexually abusing her two-year-old granddaughter and posting vision of it on social media platform TikTok, before it was quickly removed without anyone seeing it.
A 72-year-old Palmerston man faces court charged with multiple sexual offences against children after a mother and her two daughters accused the man, known to them through their religious group, of sexual assault against the girls.
A 21-year-old man has been arrested after he allegedly indecently assaulted a sleeping woman in her home, resisted arrest, bit a police officer and began urinating in a police vehicle.
A 28-year-old Palmerston man has been arrested and charged for an alleged sexual assault.
A Tuggeranong teenager has been charged with a string of sex offences including sharing intimate images without consent.
A Kambah man who drugged, robbed and sexually assaulted a man he met through a dating app has been charged.
A 26-year-old woman was taken from the boot of a car and left near the Tuggeranong Parkway.
A 28-year-old man is facing court charged with indecently assaulting two children and physically assaulted another while working at a childcare facility.
A Sunshine Coast man is facing court charged over the alleged sexual assault of a woman following an evening out at a nightclub in November last year.
A Calwell man sexually assaulted a female sex worker at knifepoint and stole cash from her unit, police say.
A BILL to reform consent laws in the ACT will be introduced to the Legislative Assembly this week.
A 20-year-old Acton man is facing court charged with one count of sexual intercourse without consent in April.
