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Innocence 'irrelevant' in calculating Folbigg payment

The man who authorised a widely-criticised grace payment to a woman wrongly jailed for 20 years says there's no point meeting with her.

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Premier doubles down as Folbigg slams 'unfair' $2m deal

The NSW premier is not budging on a $2 million compensation offer to wrongfully jailed mother Kathleen Folbigg after she described it as "a slap in the face".

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Folbigg review push as $2m 'plucked out of the air'

Mystery surrounds the calculation of a $2 million offer to compensate Kathleen Folbigg for 20 years of wrongful imprisonment, prompting calls for more scrutiny.

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Transparency gaps cloud $2m Folbigg compensation offer

A high-profile lawyer has called for the release of reasons for a widely criticised $2 million payout offer to wrongfully jailed Kathleen Folbigg.

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Minns says Folbigg ‘free’ to sue his government if $2m not enough for 20 years in jail for wrongful convictions

New South Wales premier facing bipartisan condemnation and possible inquiry into what has been described as an ‘insulting’ compensation payout

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Woman’s lawyer says $2 million compensation offer is ‘profoundly unfair’

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Woman offered $2 million for being wrongfully imprisoned for 20 years

Kathleen Folbigg, once dubbed ‘the most hated woman in Australia‘, had her convictions quashed in 2023

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Lawyer condemns $1.3 million compensation for Australian woman wrongfully imprisoned for 20 years

The New South Wales government has decided to pay $1.3 million in compensation to Kathleen Folbigg, who spent 20 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of killing her four children

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Afternoon Update: Labor casts doubt over US deporting Iranian to Australia; Kathleen Folbigg compensated; and an interstellar jellyfish

US immigration authorities threaten to deport Reza Zavvar, 52, to Australia or Romania despite him having no links to either country

The Guardian - AU

Kathleen Folbigg’s $2m compensation ‘a moral affront’ after two decades in jail for wrongful convictions, lawyer says

Appeals court formally overturned mother’s convictions over her children’s four deaths in 2023, clearing her name

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Wrongly convicted Folbigg 'failed again' by $2m offer

A payment offered to Kathleen Folbigg after she was wrongfully convicted of killing her children and jailed for decades has been savaged by her supporters.

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Folbigg urges genetic testing expansion after acquittal

Kathleen Folbigg, who was wrongly convicted over the deaths of her children, says genetic testing should be bolstered to avoid a repeat of her experience.

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Shankari Chandran, Robert Dessaix, Diana Reid and more: Australian books to look forward to in 2025

From enthralling debuts to playful premises and national reckonings, here is a whirlwind tour of what’s to come

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Wrongly convicted of a crime? Your ability to clear your name can come down to your postcode

If you’re found guilty of a crime, it’s a basic principle of Australian law that you have a right to appeal.

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Is it possible to have a fair jury trial anymore?

The decades-long mystery about what happened to 19-year-old Amber Haigh made it to court in New South Wales earlier this year. Those accused of murdering Haigh were found not guilty.

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Premier to probe 'delay' in Folbigg compensation claim

Wrongly convicted mother Kathleen Folbigg hopes to raise her story and compensation claim with the NSW premier more than a year after being pardoned.

Newcastle Herald

'No body, no parole' questioned by high-profile wrongfully convicted duo

Kathleen Folbigg and Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton have signed a letter opposing the laws.

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'No body, no parole' questioned by wrongfully convicted

Lawyers and wrongfully convicted people - including Kathleen Folbigg and Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton - have signed a letter opposing 'no body, no parole laws'.

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No 'proactive' payment for wrongfully jailed Folbigg

Waiting for pardoned mother Kathleen Folbigg to ask for a financial remedy for her decades in jail will be an extra burden to carry, an MP says.

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Kathleen Folbigg's former husband dies

The former husband of a woman who spent decades in prison before being acquitted of killing their children has died.

Newcastle Herald

Kathleen Folbigg's ex-husband dies at Maitland Hospital

Craig Folbigg's ex-wife was given a pardon over the deaths of their children.

Evening Standard

Woman branded 'Australia's worst mother' has convictions for killing her four children quashed

A court concluded the convictions against Kathleen Folbigg were 'not reliable'

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Australian court tosses woman's 2-decade-old convictions in deaths of her 4 children

Kathleen Folbigg already was pardoned and released from prison in June based on new scientific evidence that her four children may have died from natural causes as she had insisted.

The Guardian - AU

Wrongfully jailed for 20 years, Australia’s ‘most hated woman’ likely to receive record compensation

Kathleen Folbigg was considered country’s worst female serial killer and spent two decades in jail. Now she is free and has cleared her name

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