Russell Jackson

Dennis Cometti was known to viewers as a wordsmith who rattled off rejoinders with ease, but behind the scenes he worked harder than anyone to carve out a place in Australia's sporting landscape.

Like Donald Bradman’s tank stand, the backyard tennis court of Rod Laver’s youth has survived against the odds, but it is yet to be heritage listed.

As police up the reward to $1 million for information that will lead to the remains of missing school girl Eloise Worledge, questions remain about why police disregarded a known rapist in their investigation.

England's wicketkeeper for the Ashes series may look unassuming but as Russell Jackson writes, if Australia underestimates Jamie Smith, they will do so at their peril.

A school principal accused of child sexual abuse was shuffled onto a series of new jobs, correspondence shows.

After battling alone with the stigma of family sexual abuse, Travis found a community thanks to a new form of group therapy.

A survivor of "shocking" sexual abuse at a Melbourne primary school has received what his lawyer has called "the biggest publicly-known payment to an abuse survivor in Australia" in an extraordinary $8 million settlement with the Victorian Education Department.

A new lawsuit reveals a "psychopathic" paedophile teacher was employed in a Marist Brothers school despite a prior conviction for child sexual abuse and having previously been banished from the Victorian Education Department school system.

A “psychopathic” paedophile, who later boasted of sexually abusing 2,000 boys, was employed as a Victorian Education Department school teacher despite declaring in a 1970s job application form that he was a convicted child abuser.

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan acknowledges the state's "serious and systematic" failure to protect children in government schools from abuse, while announcing a truth-telling process for survivors.