Martyn wrote to the complainants to say the board was not in a position to \u201cmake editorial assessments about the journalism of individual judges\u201d and \u201cno further action will be taken in relation to Mr Guilliatt\u2019s position on the judging board\u201d.<\/p>\n
Guilliatt told Martyn he was pleased with her \u201csensible decision\u201d to take no action against him. But he immediately tendered his resignation because he was \u201cdismayed that the Walkley Foundation Mid-Year Media Prize judges have awarded a prize to the misleading media reports which precipitated the complaints against me\u201d.<\/p>\n
Funnell told Guardian Australia that Guilliatt\u2019s claim of errors and misrepresentations in her reporting was wrong. \u201cWe have not made any corrections, nor do we have any need to,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Martyn confirmed the resignation but did not elaborate.<\/p>\n
\u201cRichard Guilliatt is no longer a member of the Walkley Judging Board having resigned last month,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
His resignation comes almost four months after the survivor of the abuse broke her silence and told Funnell that she was devastated when Guilliatt interviewed her parents for his podcast despite her father receiving a record sentence of 48 years<\/a>, and the convictions being upheld all the way to the high court.<\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a>Free newsletter | When needed<\/p>\n Sign up to Breaking News Australia<\/p>\n Get the most important news as it breaks<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n She said her privacy was shattered after The Australian accessed her sexual assault counselling notes which had been subpoenaed as part of the trial.<\/p>\n The Australian has defended accessing the notes as public interest journalism.<\/p>\n After Funnell\u2019s articles Guilliatt defended his work, writing that \u201cShadow of Doubt raised questions about the guilty verdict<\/a>, about the reliability of Emily\u2019s memories, the adequacy of her mental health treatment and the police investigation of her allegations\u201d.<\/p>\n Guardian Australia revealed in April that Corrective Services NSW was investigating how Guilliatt was able to interview the couple while they were incarcerated.<\/p>\n In 2023, The Australian published the eight-part series<\/a> featuring interviews with the couple from jail using pseudonyms. It raised questions about the verdicts largely based on the argument that \u201cno one noticed the abuse\u201d.<\/p>\n Information and support for anyone affected by rape or sexual abuse is available from the following organisations. In Australia, support is available at Full Stop Australia<\/a> (1800 385 578). In the UK, Rape Crisis<\/a> offers support on 0808 500 2222. In the US, Rainn<\/a> offers support on 800-656-4673. Other international helplines can be found at ibiblio.org\/rcip\/internl.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The journalist Richard Guilliatt has resigned from the Walkley awards judging board after the Walkley Foundation dismissed complaints…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-791911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2998.jpg\")
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