Press Coverage

Lydia Lynch, ‘Push for Gender Equality on Juries’, The Australian (18 April 2023) 5

Ella Brumm, ‘The Crumbling Legitimacy of Queensland’s Consent Laws’, QUT Glass (20 July 2022)

Lydia Lynch and Sarah Petty, ‘Queensland Sexual Consent Laws in Overhaul’, The Australian (15 June 2022) 7

Rachael Rosel, ‘”Survivor Decides” in DNA Review’, The Courier-Mail (6 June 2022) 6

Sam Turner, ‘Sunshine Coast Rapists and Their Sentences Revealed’, Sunshine Coast Daily (1 June 2022)

Lucy Cocoran, ‘Affirmative Consent is Now Law in NSW. What Does This Mean for an Already Overwhelmed System?’, Elle Australia (1 June 2022)

Jessie Tu, ‘Affirmative Consent Has Come Into Effect in NSW’, Women’s Agenda (1 June 2022)

Lydia Lynch, ‘Porn “Link to Sex Assault Rise”’, The Australian (14 March 2022) 3

Tessa Ogle, ‘NSW Just Passed an Affirmative Consent Bill — But the Work Doesn’t End Here’, Harper’s Bazaar (23 November 2021)

Saxon Mullins, ‘Why All Australian States Should Have Affirmative Consent Laws’, The Saturday Paper (20 November 2021)

Josh Robertson, ‘Inside One Woman’s Legal Nightmare from a Sexual Assault Case’, ABC News (Australia) (17 June 2021)

Nicole Precel and Cloe Read, ‘Commissioner Concedes Rape Investigation Language Was “Not Appropriate”’, Brisbane Times (18 May 2021)

Nicole Precel, ‘”They’ve Failed Me”: Qld Police Accused of Relying on Rape Myths’, Brisbane Times (16 May 2021)

Nicola Berkovic, ‘Under-Reporting of Sex Assaults “Under Review”’, The Australian (28 March 2021)

Jack McKay and Domanii Cameron, ‘Consent Laws “Fail to Go Far Enough”’, The Courier-Mail (23 March 2021) 7

Justine Landis-Hanley, ‘Why a Sexual Consent App Fundamentally Misunderstands the Notion of Consent’, Junkee (18 March 2021)

Naomi Neilson, ‘Historical Claims Should Not be “Barrier to Justice”, Legal Experts Warn’, Lawyers Weekly (8 March 2021)

Naomi Neilson, ‘“Does Not Go Far Enough”: Queensland A-G Responds to Consent Law Advocates’, Lawyers Weekly (13 January 2021)

Josh Robertson, ‘Victim of Alleged Gang Rape Says Senior Queensland Police Sought Her Silence Over Detective’s Failures’, ABC News (Australia) (3 February 2021)

Jessica Rendall, ‘Queensland’s Premier Has Been Criticised for Maintaining Coronavirus Border Closures, But Is She the One Making the Decisions?’, ABC News (Australia) (15 October 2020)

Bri Lee, ‘The Old Guard Preventing Reform to Consent Laws’, The Saturday Paper (15 August 2020)

Alex Bruce-Smith, ‘A 3-Min Explainer on QLD’s Mistake of Fact Rape Defence and Why a Bill to Fix It Does Nothing’, Pedestrian (15 August 2020)

Lydia Lynch, ‘Rape Survivors Say New Sex Consent Laws are a “Slap in the Face”’, Brisbane Times (13 August 2020)

Felicity Nelson, ‘How These Agencies are Breaching Patient Privacy’, The Medical Republic (21 April 2020)

Lauren Roberts, ‘Push to Introduce Mandatory, Unified Sexual Consent Lessons in Australian Schools’, ABC News (Australia) (29 February 2020)

Inga Ting and Lauren Roberts, ‘Unpursued in the Top End’, ABC News (Australia) (20 February 2020)

Kylie Stevens, ‘Sexual Assault Claims are Now More Likely than Ever to be Dropped Before Reaching Court’, The Daily Mail (Australia) (20 February 2020)

Madeline Hislop, ‘New Investigation Reveals How Badly Police Have Failed Survivors of Sexual Assault’, Women’s Agenda (29 January 2020)

Felicity Nelson, ‘Australian Government Secretly Releasing Sensitive Medical Records to Police’, The Guardian (Australia) (27 January 2020)

‘Now Is the Time to Help Close the Archaic “Mistake of Fact” Loophole in Queensland’, Women’s Agenda (20 January 2020)

Ann Wason Moore, ‘Lawyer’s Bid to Overturn Get-Out-of-Jail Rape Rule’, Gold Coast Bulletin (11 January 2020) 34-35

‘Editorial: Set Bar Higher’, Gold Coast Bulletin (11 January 2020) 76

Kellie Scott, ‘Active Consent Doesn’t Sound Sexy, but It Can Lead to More Pleasure’, ABC Life (Australia) (28 October 2019)

Georgie Dent, ‘Getting Away with Rape: In New South Wales and Queensland, an Archaic Legal Loophole is Enabling Men to Get Away with Sickening Crimes’, Marie Claire Australia (October 2019) 47-52

Nicole Precel and Eleanor Marsh, ‘Sexual Consent: Why “No” is Not Enough in Some States’, The Sydney Morning Herald (11 September 2019)

Leanne Edmistone, ‘Battered by Twin Traumas: When Rape Victims Say the Anguish They Suffer from the Legal System is Almost as Bad as the Crime Itself, Something Needs to be Done’, QWeekend Magazine, The Courier-Mail (13 July 2019) 12-14

Neha Kale, ‘“I Didn’t Know Where to Go”: The Reality Facing Female International Students After Abuse’, SBS News (Australia) (12 July 2019)

Natalie Wolfe, ‘Gold Coast Mum’s Rape Case Dropped by Police After Man Uses Mistake of Fact Defence’, News.com.au (12 July 2019)

Madeline Hislop, ‘Archaic Rape Defence “Loophole” to Come Under Review in Queensland’, Women’s Agenda (10 July 2019)

Natalie Wolfe, ‘The Few Seconds and Hair Touch that Let a Rapist Go Free’, News.com.au (10 July 2019)

Sam George-Allen, ‘Queensland is Moving to Close a Wildly Outdated Legal Loophole that Protects Rapists’, Pedestrian (10 July 2019)

Josh Robertson, ‘Queensland Will Abolish Rape Defence “Loophole” if Law Reform Experts Recommend It’, ABC News (Australia) (9 July 2019)

Alexandria Utting and Sarah Vogler, ‘“Rapists Walk Free”: LNP Pushes for Reform of “Archaic” Sexual Assault Laws’, The Courier-Mail (6 July 2019) 6

‘Editorial: Time to Right Wrongs on Archaic Rape Defence’, The Courier-Mail (6 July 2019) 54

Felicity Robinson, ‘She Didn’t Consent. He Misunderstood. Is it Rape?’, Primer (30 June 2019)

Grace Ormsby, ‘Criminal Justice System Struggling with Sexual Assault’, Lawyers Weekly (18 June 2019)

Lydia Lynch, ‘“It is Horrific”: The Queensland Law Allowing Rapists Off Scot-Free’, Brisbane Times (12 June 2019)

Lea Emery, ‘Cop Shops Need Rape Squad: Lee’, Gold Coast Bulletin (8 June 2019) 18

Natasha Bita, ‘Fight to Fix Loophole in Rape Law’, The Courier-Mail (6 June 2019) 9

‘Fight to Fix Rape Law’, Gold Coast Bulletin (6 June 2019) 6

Natasha Bita, ‘Sex Assault Survivor Slams State Government Over Rape Defence Review’, The Courier-Mail (5 June 2019)

‘A Mistake of Fact’, 7am Podcast (Australia) (5 June 2019)

Gina Rushton, ‘This Sex Worker Who Was Sexually Assaulted Didn’t Think She Would Be Believed. Now Her Client Is Going to Jail’, BuzzFeed News (30 May 2019)

Stephen Stockwell, ‘The Legal Loophole that Makes it Hard to Convict Accused Rapists’, Triple J Hack (29 May 2019)

Bri Lee, ‘Time to Reform Queensland Consent Laws’, The Saturday Paper (25 May 2019)

Ben Smee, ‘Campaign for Change Puts Queensland’s Rape Laws under the Spotlight’, The Guardian (Australia) (24 May 2019)

Hayley Gleeson, ‘Mistake of Fact Defence: The Legal Loophole Stopping Queensland Rape Complainants from Getting Justice’, ABC News (Australia) (13 May 2019)

Nina Funnell, ‘Fourteen Reasons for Change’, The Mercury (4 May 2019) 24

‘Push to Overhaul Rape Laws to Remove Legal Loophole’, Gold Coast Bulletin (27 March 2019) 9

Josh Robertson, ‘Queensland Rape Laws “a Hangover from Old Attitudes”, a Former Judge Says’, ABC News (Australia) (19 March 2019)

Nina Funnell, ‘Unluckiest State for Abuse Victims’, The Observer (13 December 2018)

Bri Lee, ‘If You’ve Been Abused as a Child, Queensland is the Unluckiest State to Be In’, The Guardian (Australia) (12 December 2018)

Nina Funnell, ‘Queensland is Australia’s Worst State for Sexual Abuse Survivors to Find Justice’, The Courier-Mail (12 December 2018)

Felicity Nelson, ‘Police Can Access Medical Data, MHR or Not’, The Medical Republic (30 July 2018)

Jerome Doraisamy, ‘Sexual Consent Must be “Actively Communicated”: CLC NSW’, Lawyers Weekly (26 July 2018)

Gina Rushton, ‘The Anatomy of a Gang-Rape Trial: “I Felt Like I Was the Guilty One Trying to Prove my Innocence”’, BuzzFeed News (3 July 2018)

Olivia Goldhill, ‘Neil Gorsuch’s Philosophical Mentor Cites “Natural Law” to Reject Same-Sex Marriage and Abortion’, Quartz (26 February 2017)

‘Legal Experts Elevate Bond Uni’s Ranks’, Gold Coast Bulletin (18 July 2016) 16

Lara Bullock, ‘Bond University Appoints Trio of Academics’, Lawyers Weekly (23 June 2016)

Felicity Nelson, ‘Separation of Powers Under Threat’, Lawyers Weekly (2 June 2015)

Caroline Zielinski, ‘Should Lying to Get Sex be Classified as Rape?’, News.com.au (3 December 2014)

Television and Radio

‘Why Do Sexual Assault Survivors Face So Many Barriers to Justice?’, SBS Radio (Australia) (6 May 2021) [Punjabi version]

‘Changes to Sexual Consent Law in Queensland’, The Pineapple Rebellion, 4ZZZ Radio (Brisbane) (26 March 2021)

‘The Importance of Teaching Consent’, Life Matters, Radio National (Australia) (25 February 2021)

‘Alleged Gang Rape Victim Asked to Conceal Police Failures’, ABC News, Australian Broadcasting Network (3 February 2021)

‘Alleged Gang Rape Victim Asked to Conceal Police Failures’, AM, ABC Radio (Australia) (3 February 2021)

‘Mistake of Fact Defence in Queensland Rape Law’, Mornings with Annie Gaffney, ABC Radio Sunshine Coast (Australia) (10 June 2019)

‘Mistake of Fact Defence in Queensland Rape Law’, ABC Radio North West Queensland (Australia) (8 June 2019)

‘Queensland’s Murky Laws Around Consent and Sexual Assault’, Triple J Hack, Triple J (Australia) (28 May 2019) (segment starts at 9:10)

‘Mistake of Fact Defence in Queensland Rape Law’, ABC News, Australian Broadcasting Network (19 March 2019)

‘Animal Welfare and the Economy of Kindness’, Big Ideas, Radio National (Australia) (13 November 2014)

‘Legal Status of David Hicks (Australian Guantanamo Bay Detainee)’, TTN, Network Ten (Australia) (27 February 2007)

Video and Audio Recordings

‘“It Makes No Difference What We Do”: Climate Change and the Ethics of Collective Action’, Climate Change, Law and Legal Education Conference, Bond University, 26-27 February 2021

Renata Grossi Interviews Jonathan Crowe on Natural Law Theory, 1 September 2020

Book Launch for Jonathan Crowe and Constance Youngwon Lee (eds), Research Handbook on Natural Law Theory, Central Queensland University, Brisbane Campus, 16 January 2020

‘Imagining Anarchy’, Politics in the Pub, Ngara Institute, Mullumbimby, 25 October 2017

‘Animal Welfare and the Economy of Kindness’, Voiceless Rethinking: Speciesism, University of Queensland, 16 October 2014