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Shandee Blackburn was brutally murdered as she walked home from work - but this cold-case can still be solved. Gold Walkley-winning journalist Hedley Thomas - who created The Teacher’s Pet a...
It's been four years since Hedley, Dr Kirsty Wright and Vicki and Shannah Blackburn first Zoomed in late 2021 about the forensic testing ano...
The new director of the lab, former NSW Police Force Commissioner Mick Fuller, is tasked with leading the lab out of ruin and transforming i...
The terrible toll for victims affected by the DNA lab's ongoing failure is laid bare by Magda. Eighteen months after her alleged rape, the m...
A blockbuster new podcast from The Australian and our investigative star reporter Hedley Thomas: Sick To Death is the horrifying true story...
After a break of two years, the podcast returns with the first of several new bombshell episodes of Shandee's Legacy. The DNA lab in Queensl...
In this episode of our daily news podcast, a QLD Supreme Court judge dismisses the defamation action brought against The Australian by the m...
A defamation case sparked by the Shandee’s Story podcast poses the question: can journalists publish evidence that calls a court finding int...
From our daily news podcast The Front, John Peros' defamation action against Hedley Thomas, Shannah Blackburn and the publishers of The Aust...
There was no fanfare when Commissioner Annabelle Bennett SC handed down her findings from the Project 13 inquiry. Only disappointment that t...
Public hearings in a second inquiry into the lab and the disastrous Project 13 have concluded. Closing submissions have been delivered. And...
Public hearings for a rare second inquiry into catastrophic failings at Queensland's besieged forensics lab are about to get underway in Bri...
The Queensland government will reopen an inquiry into its troubled DNA lab after new evidence of flawed automated testing processes emerged....
A cloud has been cast over the new chief of the lab following revelations that a DNA extraction method may have failed across thousands of s...
Dr Kirsty Wright is the remarkable scientist who exposed the worst forensics disaster in Australia's history, and now she's identified the '...
The Australian's global smash-hit podcast Teacher's Pet returns for Australian audiences on July 1. You can find it wherever you got this po...
Will anyone face criminal charges for the disaster at the laboratory? We examine more of Walter Sofronoff’s findings about how this catastro...
At last, Commissioner Walter Sofronoff hands down his 500-plus-page report -- and it is a sweeping denunciation of the laboratory's failings...
It's the final week of public hearings in the explosive inquiry into a broken DNA lab and we're all here because of one person -- Shandee Bl...
In the harsh spotlight of the inquiry, lab boss Cathie Allen admits to absolutely nothing, tearfully insisting she always acted with the bes...
The big guns from the DNA lab - Lara Keller, Justin Howes and Cathie Allen - are rolled into the formal inquiry and subjected to withering q...
Four weeks in, one question lingers in the Walter Sofronoff-led Commission of Inquiry into Queensland's state-run forensics lab: who knew wh...
Humiliated. Belittled. Embarrassed. Toxic behaviour by the lab's managers leads to an epic spray from a reporting scientist in this week's e...
We reveal deep concerns that the lab managers put a new, untried and ill-conceived testing system in place immediately after the public inqu...
Following the shocking revelations of bungling, secrecy and misconduct within Queensland's DNA lab exposed in journalist Hedley Thomas' podc...
Hedley Thomas, Claire Harvey, David Murray, and Matthew Condon return to cover hearings in a major public inquiry into Queensland's state-ru...
DNA scientist Dr Kirsty Wright is shown how public servants and DNA laboratory managers behind closed doors have been minimising the serious...
Finally, seven months after the first disclosures by Dr Kirsty Wright in Episode 7 of the podcast about grave concerns over the testing of D...
From Hedley Thomas and the journalists at The Australian comes The Teacher's Trial. This is the first episode. New episodes of The Teacher's...
Will Shandee Blackburn ever get justice? Will systemic flaws in Queensland's forensic lab be independently investigated by the authorities?...
Evidence that appears to have fallen through the cracks in Shandee's case is revealed as John Peros's flat – and its hiding places &nd...
The footsteps of a running man captured in CCTV footage seconds before and after Shandee's slaying are re-enacted to test a theory that the...
Queensland's government-run forensics lab has been using a testing threshold that is preventing it from detecting DNA in many samples, says...
Forensic biologist Dr Kirsty Wright says she's found irrefutable evidence that the forensics train wreck in Shandee's case is not a one-off...
Shandee's family reflect on a justice system they say failed Shandee and share who they believe her real killer is – and why he escape...
The prosecutor Josh Phillips argues CCTV footage proves John is a killer and William Daniel a red herring, while Craig Eberhardt responds wi...
John's defence lawyer Craig Eberhardt smashes the credibility of three key Australia Day witnesses as they try to deny obvious references to...
John Peros's murder trial begins, and John's criminal defence lawyers fight to have evidence they believe is unfair to their client excluded...
Detectives face tough questions from John Peros's legal team at a committal hearing prior to his murder trial. William Daniel and Levii Blac...
John Peros is taken to a windowless room in Brisbane's police headquarters in early September 2014. Detectives want him to see CCTV footage...
Major forensics failures in a government-run laboratory seriously compromised the police investigation into Shandee's murder, one of Austral...
An increasingly paranoid John Peros cuts ties with former friends and records his conversations – a close friend tells police that Joh...
A violent self-styled gangster who carries knives, deals and uses illegal drugs, and attacks men and women in the sugar and mining town loom...
John Peros tells a friend he has entered "stealth mode", purchasing a motor scooter, deleting social media and using a new phone as police o...
Detectives forensically examining Shandee's iPhone uncover thousands of text messages and evidence of fierce rows between John Peros and Sha...
Police detectives talk to Shandee's former boyfriend, John Peros, who discloses his trust issues, their arguments, problems in the bedroom a...
Shandee Blackburn is a popular, outgoing young woman who lives with her mother Vicki in a Queensland town renowned for its sugar, Mackay. Sh...
Shandee Blackburn was brutally murdered as she walked home from work - but this cold-case can still be solved. Gold Walkley Award-winning jo...