He has also denied there was malicious prosecution or failure of police \u201cit was not malfeasance of the state\u201d, in spite of clear evidence from the Bathurst Inquiry that Ms Folbigg\u2019s diary entries were misrepresented in the court proceedings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When asked if a forensic accountant was engaged to examine Ms Folbigg\u2019s financial circumstances before the $2m ex-gratia payment was made, the Attorney General said \u201cI don\u2019t believe so\u2026 not on behalf of the government\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNSW Labor\u2019s Attorney General is just another man continuing the cycle of injustice and inhumanity in Kathleen Folbigg\u2019s life, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLabor Premier Chris Minns and Attorney General Michael Daley are the two men with the power to right the 20 year wrongful imprisonment of Kathleen Folbigg, a mother who lost four children. But these two men are still refusing to meet with Kathleen, they are refusing to apologise to Kathleen, they are victim-blaming her in the media, and they are disputing there was any misogyny involved in Kathleen\u2019s wrongful conviction and the inadequate amount of compensation now offered to her, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Minns Labor Government didn\u2019t even bother to ask a forensic accountant to consider the harm that the State of New South Wales had caused Ms Folbigg by locking her up for 20 years or what a woman in her position would need to be able to live her life in the absence of significant economic stress. They seemingly have no regard for Ms Folbigg\u2019s wellbeing, and they have fundamentally undermined the community\u2019s faith in our legal system, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn his evidence today, the Attorney General went as far as to deny Ms Folbigg the presumption of innocence. If you are acquitted, you are innocent, because the presumption of innocence is a fundamental principle of our legal system, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Attorney General knows what happened to Ms Folbigg was wrong. He knew that had to make an ex-gratia payment. But he refused to look Kathleen in the eye, he didn\u2019t bother asking anyone what she needs to avoid financial destitution, and he knows full well she can\u2019t afford years of court battles with the NSW Government, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOur entire ex-gratia payment process is extremely flawed. Men in suits, in smoky back rooms, get to unilaterally decide what happens to women who are victims of grave injustice inflicted by errors of the state. There\u2019s no oversight, no accountability, and no regard for the harm they might cause, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt just shouldn\u2019t be this hard to get the Attorney General to care about justice, and to care about women who are victims of injustice, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cImagine what Kathleen must be feeling, having been wrongfully imprisoned for 20 years, losing four children, and now being ignored by the man who is supposed to embody justice in this State, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAt the very least, the Attorney General should have enough empathy and humanity to sit down with Ms Folbigg and to understand the decades of loss she has endured.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In a Budget Estimates Hearing today, Labor Attorney General Michael Daley told the hearing that “acquittal is not the same as innocence\u201d and refused to answer whether he believed in Ms Folbigg\u2019s innocence. He has also denied there was malicious prosecution or failure of police \u201cit was not malfeasance of the state\u201d, in spite … Continue reading “Labor Attorney General slammed for falsely disputing Kathleen Folbigg innocence, denying government wrongdoing, challenging claims of misogyny”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34604,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34603\/revisions\/34604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}