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Payment revealed after ABC agreed to pay him $150,000 and remove Facebook video of Brittany Higgins and Grace Tame speech at National Press Club

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'Keeping it a secret turned me into a victim with no power'.

Lawyers and abuse survivors call on institutions to cease using stays and for legislation to reopen past cases where tactic was used

Crikey readers warmly applaud the words written by the campaigner, author and survivor of child sexual abuse, saying her story is a ‘striking call to arms’.

Resources Minister Madeleine King says cutting Australia’s gas supply would ‘worsen poverty and inequality’ and lead to ‘shortages … and high prices’, and independent Senator Lidia Thorpe says Dan Andrews quitting six days after announcing his plan to raze and redevelop 44 public housing towers was a ‘dog act’.

Increased expenses at council venues - and a lack of alternative options - is a growing headache, say organisers of artistic events

David Van, the Liberal senator booted from the party over allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards women, will cause a seat shuffle if and when he returns to Parliament, and two mentions of Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews were cut from his state’s anti-corruption body’s latest report.

High-profile journalists Peter FitzSimons and Laura Tingle will provide evidence in defamation action brought by former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann.

Australia's use of hotels as makeshift detention centres for asylum seekers and refugees awaiting medical treatment is lawful but lacks humanity, a court finds.

The former Liberal Party staffer alleges the ABC was ‘recklessly indifferent’ to the possibility it would prejudice a Supreme Court trial against him.