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What are the NSW hate speech laws under consideration after Sydney’s recent antisemitic attacks?

Council for Civil Liberties says Minns government is at risk of making ‘reactionary’ legislation as pressure mounts to stem further attacks

The Guardian - AU

Minns rejects claim hate speech review targets Muslims

The NSW premier has been accused of disregarding advice and marginalising Muslims with a review of the state's hate speech laws.

AAP

Kathleen Folbigg’s convictions for killing her four children quashed by NSW court

Folbigg spent two decades behind bars and now says ‘they took my words out of context and turned them against me’

The Guardian - AU

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Final report shows 'system failed' Kathleen Folbigg

An appeals court will be asked to consider overturning her convictions.

Newcastle Herald

Folbigg poised for review of child-killing convictions

Kathleen Folbigg could have her convictions for killing her four children officially overturned after earlier receiving an unconditional pardon.

AAP

An 'unimaginable' 20 years for Kathleen Folbigg

'It's unimaginable, and none of us can put ourselves in Kathleen's shoes ... we can't inhabit her grief, no one can'

Newcastle Herald

'Worst female serial killer' released from jail immediately after new evidence

Kathleen Folbigg, 55, spent almost two decades behind bars for murdering her children Patrick, Sarah and Laura – aged from eight months to 19 months –between 1991 and 1999. She was also found guilty in 2003 of the manslaughter of her first-born child, Caleb.

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Kathleen Folbigg was demonised by a legal system that even punished efforts to establish her innocence

Submissions at Folbigg’s trial were based in misogynistic stereotypes and had no rational relationship with a charge of murder

The Guardian - AU

Folbigg's ex-husband believes his children were murdered

Craig Folbigg's lawyer, Danny Eid, says the numbness continues for him

Newcastle Herald

Kathleen Folbigg pardon: what evidence emerged over her children’s deaths and what happens next?

Attorney general says Folbigg’s lawyers can ‘initiate civil proceedings against the state of NSW for compensation’

The Guardian - AU

An Australian mother jailed 20 years is pardoned and freed because of new evidence

The pardon was seen as the quickest way of getting Kathleen Folbigg out of prison, as new scientific evidence found that her four children died by natural causes as she had insisted.

WEKU

Australian mother imprisoned 20 years pardoned and freed because of doubt she killed her 4 children

An Australian woman who spent 20 years in prison was pardoned and released based on new scientific evidence that her four children died by natural causes as she had insisted

The Independent UK

Convicted killer Kathleen Folbigg pardoned over deaths of children

Convicted child killer Kathleen Folbigg has been pardoned in the deaths of her sons and daughters and will be released from jail.

The New Daily

Kathleen Folbigg pardoned, released immediately after two decades

'It's been a 20-year ordeal for her.'

Newcastle Herald

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ABC News

Kathleen Folbigg pardoned after 20 years in jail over killing her four children

Craig Folbigg's lawyer said his client's view "has not changed whatsoever" as his ex-wife walks free after two decades behind bars.

ABC News

Kathleen Folbigg inquiry to shortly decide child killer's fate, two decades after conviction

Kathleen Folbigg was found guilty of killing her four children 20 years ago today. An inquiry will soon decide whether the woman dubbed as "Australia's most hated woman" at the time was wrongly convicted.

ABC News

Inside the judicial inquiry which could see convicted killer Kathleen Folbigg pardoned

After a long running inquiry, a decision on whether there is doubt about Kathleen Folbigg's convictions for killing her four children in the New South Wales Hunter, is expected within months.

The Independent UK

Prosecutors now doubt imprisoned mother killed her children

Prosecutors have acknowledged that new scientific evidence leaves reasonable doubt that an imprisoned Australian mother deliberately killed her four children

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Kathleen Folbigg inquiry adjourned as police produce 500 hours of recordings from bug planted in home

The second inquiry into Kathleen Folbigg's convictions for killing her four children is adjourned until April after police tabled, at the last minute, recordings from a listening device that was planted in Folbigg's Hunter Valley home in 1999.

ABC News

Kathleen Folbigg inquiry told gene mutation 'reasonable explanation' for death of two babies

A genetics expert who visited Kathleen Folbigg in jail to get her medical history has told an inquiry a rare genetic mutation may have led to the deaths of two of her four children.

The Independent UK

Australian inquiry asks whether mom smothered her 4 children

A retired Australian judge investigating the convictions of a mother in the deaths of her four children has been told there is a “reasonable hypothesis” that could cast doubt on her guilt

The Independent UK

Australian inquiry asks whether mom smothered her 4 children

An Australian inquiry has began investigating whether a woman convicted of smothering her four children to death over a decade ago might be innocent

Newcastle Herald

Folbigg's DNA variant 'exceptionally rare', inquiry hears

Her lawyers have submitted the evidence indicates a genetic mutation could be responsible for the deaths of two of the children.

Newcastle Herald

Next stage of second inquiry into Folbigg convictions due to begin

Folbigg's lawyers have submitted the evidence indicates a genetic mutation could be responsible for the deaths of two of the children.

AAP

Folbigg's DNA variant 'exceptionally rare'

A rare genetic variant affecting the heart is the focus of a second inquiry into the conviction of Kathleen Folbigg, three years on from the first inquiry.

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