Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New South Wales is set to become the first jurisdiction in the country to end the use of good character references in the ...

Good character references from friends and families of rapists had previously been a consideration in a judge’s sentencing decision The consideration of good character references for convicted rapists ...

Victorian Attorney-General Sonya Kilkenny is examining a NSW government push to ban the controversial references following pleas from child sexual abuse survivors who say the mechanism is ...

There has been significant backlash against Hollywood figures Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis’ defence of their friend, convicted rapist Danny Masterson, bringing the use of character references into ...