Shandee's Legacy Episode 18: Unfinished Business
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...
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20 of 47 episodesShandee's Legacy Episode 17: A Fuller Future
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...
Shandee's Legacy Episode 16: Magda
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...
Hedley Thomas’ new podcast: Sick To Death
A blockbuster new podcast from The Australian and our investigative star reporter Hedley Thomas: Sick To Death is the horrifying true story...
Shandee's Legacy Episode 15: Deja Vu
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...
From The Front: John Peros defamation case dismissed
In this episode of our daily news podcast, a QLD Supreme Court judge dismisses the defamation action brought against The Australian by the m...
From The Front: Can journalists call someone a murderer?
A defamation case sparked by the Shandee’s Story podcast poses the question: can journalists publish evidence that calls a court finding int...
From The Front: John Peros v The Australian
From our daily news podcast The Front, John Peros' defamation action against Hedley Thomas, Shannah Blackburn and the publishers of The Aust...
Shandee’s Legacy Episode 14: Closing Ranks
There was no fanfare when Commissioner Annabelle Bennett SC handed down her findings from the Project 13 inquiry. Only disappointment that t...
Shandee’s Legacy Episode 13: Science Speak
Public hearings in a second inquiry into the lab and the disastrous Project 13 have concluded. Closing submissions have been delivered. And...
Shandee’s Legacy Episode 12: History Repeating
Public hearings for a rare second inquiry into catastrophic failings at Queensland's besieged forensics lab are about to get underway in Bri...
From The Front: Queensland's DNA lab is back under the microscope
The Queensland government will reopen an inquiry into its troubled DNA lab after new evidence of flawed automated testing processes emerged....
Shandee’s Legacy Episode 11: What Linzi Left Out
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...
Shandee's Legacy Episode 10: Project 13
Dr Kirsty Wright is the remarkable scientist who exposed the worst forensics disaster in Australia's history, and now she's identified the '...
It's back: The Teacher's Pet returns for Australian listeners
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...
Shandee's Legacy Episode 9: Consequences
Will anyone face criminal charges for the disaster at the laboratory? We examine more of Walter Sofronoff’s findings about how this catastro...
Shandee's Legacy Episode 8: Astounded
At last, Commissioner Walter Sofronoff hands down his 500-plus-page report -- and it is a sweeping denunciation of the laboratory's failings...
Shandee's Legacy Episode 7: Freedom Day
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...
Shandee's Legacy Episode 6: Disney Villain
In the harsh spotlight of the inquiry, lab boss Cathie Allen admits to absolutely nothing, tearfully insisting she always acted with the bes...
Shandee's Legacy Episode 5: Blowtorch
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...