» Rod Irvine

Blog Archives

The First Stone Revisited (2018 2nd edition)

In 1995 noted Australian feminist and author Helen Garner published her book ‘The First Stone’. In this she examined the case of two charges of indecent assault that were brought by the Victorian Police against the then Master of Ormond College, Melbourne University. She tried to understand why the complaints were brought and why events

A Thumbnail introduction to the “Figtree Affair”: Figtree Anglican church v the Dobbs family

I have written a great deal about this case: A Cautionary Tale, A Mother’s Story, The Evolution of a Lie, Whispers and Lies and The First Stone Revisited are the major ones. Each looks at the case from a different angle. This article is to give the new readers (or just the bemused readers) a

A Mother’s Story: Figtree Anglican church and the Dobbs family.

A Mother’s Story: this Machelle Dobbs’ story of the ruthless abuse of herself and all her family by clergy, staff and parishioners of Figtree Anglican Church, in Wollongong, NSW, Australia by inflicting shunning and disfellowship on this mother and her six children because of a complaint fabricated by a Lee Nicholls about her OCD-affected adult

The Evolution of a Lie Chapter 10

The Evolution of a Lie Chapter 10 The curious story of Anika Rose aka Lee Tran(Trang) aka Girl Y. Who was she? Her anonymous story to Helen Irvine as told to Bruce Clarke. 2016 chapter 10(2)

The Evolution of a Lie Chapter 5

2016 chapter 5 (2) The Evolution of a Lie chapter 5 There were problems with the case which were identified from the start yet the PSU went on and on with an expensive, time-consuming and fundamentally flawed and incompetent process resulting in Scott forcing a referral to a hearing by the Disciplinary Tribunal.

The Evolution of a Lie Chapter 1

2016 chapter 1 (2) The Evolution of a Lie Chapter 1 The Story