Mystery surrounds the disappearance of key documents relating to an alleged deal between construction giant John Holland and the Australian Workers' Union that began when Opposition Leader Bill Shorten was in charge.
The Child Support Agency launched a court case against a man who had just lavished more than $17,000 on his daughters because the money did not flow through the federal government agency.
A Sydney woman has escaped conviction on charges of fraud and failing to report a death after an inquest heard that after she found her mother's dead body in the old woman's bedroom, she simply shut door and proceeded as normal.
Open justice is elusive despite the 2013 Open Courts Act. Suppression orders continue to be issued in great numbers by Victorian courts, and in some cases without giving a reason for the order.
