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Customers of a collapsed building firm have been left fuming after airing out their concerns to the master franchisor months ago but being turned away. Last Friday, news.com.au reported that Western Australia-based RPH Australia Pty Ltd…

Devastated customers of a collapsed building firm are calling out the state government for being “unfair” because other victims of the construction industry crisis have been compensated, but not them.In March this year, Australia’s 13th…

A young NSW tradie left permanently blind after receiving the Covid vaccine has been denied compensation by the federal government, despite two experts agreeing his condition was likely caused by the jab.Cody Hose-Ross, 21, had his…

It never occurred to Smital Patel and Kiran Rathod that their happy, healthy baby girl would end up at The Royal Children’s Hospital – or come to call it her “second home”. Their daughter Aru, who is the face of this year’s Good Friday…

Rose Milthorpe was just four years old when she begged her mum, Michelle, to make her a superhero invisibility cloak, hoping it would “protect” her from “the monster” who was sexually abusing her.Unaware of the sinister reason behind the…

More than 55,000 Aussies have joined the fight to end a brutal court process that leaves survivors of child sexual abuse “broken and traumatised”.Last month, news.com.au launched its exclusive Justice Shouldn’t Hurt campaign, calling for…

The heartbreaking diary of a mum supporting her two young daughters through a sexual abuse trial has been released and it makes for harrowing reading. The diary, by Michelle Milthorpe from Albury, NSW, was written in the five weeks she was…

The NSW Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) – the body responsible for prosecuting all child sexual offence matters in the state – has backed news.com.au’s campaign call for Government to roll out the Child Sexual Offence…

Rose and Pippa Milthorpe were seven and 11 years old when they took the stand in the trial of the man accused of sexually abusing them.Both sisters say the court process was “cruel” and “traumatic”. Not only did they run into the accused in…

Six years. That’s how long the Milthorpe family has been pleading with the NSW Attorney-General’s office to expand a pilot program designed to make court less traumatic for children in sexual offence cases.Sexual abuse survivors Rose…