The Latest Breaking News from Steven Whybrow

'Illusionist' businessman guilty of defrauding millions

A businessman, who defrauded would-be investors of more than $34 million, is behind bars awaiting sentencing after being found guilty of scores of charges.

AAP · Sep 5, 2025

‘Inconsequential’ texts, leaked letters and expensive clothes: five takeaways from the Higgins v Reynolds defamation ruling

WA supreme court judge releases 360-page ruling finding Higgins defamed her former boss Reynolds in social media posts

The Guardian - AU · Aug 27, 2025

'Illusionist' investor accused of defrauding millions

A businessman promising "a pot of gold" and his assistant allegedly defrauded clients of millions of dollars by promising hefty returns, a court has been told.

AAP · Jul 28, 2025

Now-paraplegic painter climbed on roof 'to impress', supervisor says

The supervisor faced a criminal charge over a six metre fall.

The Canberra Times · Apr 3, 2024

Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial: verdict to be handed down on 4 April

Justice Michael Lee to hand down decision after considering 15,000 pages of transcript and hours of CCTV footage in case against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson

The Guardian - AU · Mar 20, 2024

A minister’s office and two different stories: the Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial comes to a close

Brittany Higgins says she was raped. Lehrmann denies it. After weeks of evidence the judge must decide who he believes

The Guardian - AU · Dec 22, 2023

Brittany Higgins told ‘complete falsehoods’ amid ‘political hit job’, Bruce Lehrmann’s lawyers say as defamation trial ends

Judge concludes case and reserves his decision after more than four weeks of evidence

The Guardian - AU · Dec 22, 2023

Brittany Higgins’ parents tell court ‘vivacious’ daughter became ‘withdrawn’ after alleged rape

Kelly Higgins has told the Bruce Lehrmann defamation case that hearing about the alleged assault was a ‘mother’s worst nightmare’. Lehrmann has always denied the allegation

The Guardian - AU · Dec 11, 2023

An alleged rape in Parliament House is in court again – and Australia can’t look away

An allegation of rape, fiercely denied, in a ministerial office is being interrogated by weeks of testimony and cross-examination in a defamation trial brought by the accused

The Guardian - UK · Dec 8, 2023

Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial: two lives in the balance over the rape allegations dividing Australia

In a dramatic week in court, Lehrmann was cross-examined for the first time over the allegation he raped Brittany Higgins in Parliament House in Canberra, which he strenuously denies

The Guardian - AU · Dec 1, 2023