Ben Smee

default New evidence uncovered by Guardian Australia reveals that Queensland police failed to act on repeated and serious warnings about a man who perpetrated one of Australia's most shocking child abuse homicides.

Exclusive: An autopsy of the five-month-old revealed dozens of older injuries, including fractured ribs. Yet no one has been charged and no inquest has been held into his death

Nine months before the death of toddler Mason Jet Lee , a woman called police to warn them about the boy's killer, William Andrew O'Sullivan.

The Mason Lee case was not an anomaly. Queensland’s police and coronial systems work as designed – and that’s the core of the current crisis

Nour Haydar and Queensland correspondent, Ben Smee, discuss what the violent death of Mason Jet Lee reveals about a broken system

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The LNP’s unapologetic moves on crime, transgender healthcare and police-led suppression of protests are a throwback to days many thought had come and gone

‘We already have more than 1,000 recommendations. The knowledge gap isn’t there. There’s an implementation gap’, policy expert says

UK police adviser in the early 2000s and global consultant in ‘no-body’ homicide cases says he has narrowed down the outback search area

The former British government expert who consulted on the search for the remains of the murdered backpacker Peter Falconio says he has now identified