The inquiry into Queensland's state-run forensics lab has heard police DNA collection procedures could have affected the viability of samples in Shandee Blackburn's 2013 murder investigation. A ...

Commission of Inquiry into Forensic DNA Testing hears police demanded retesting, resulting in profile found to match offender Fears crucial evidence was being missed by the government-run forensic lab ...

Hundreds of semen samples taken as evidence of sex crimes were not tested for DNA by Queensland's forensics lab, an inquiry into its processes has heard. Processes did not change until five months ...

The government-run lab, a major focus of The Australian’s ­investigative podcast, Shandee’s Story, by award-winning journalist Hedley Thomas, has been ­ordered to ­change expert witness statements ...

John Doherty, who ran Forensic and Scientific Services within Queensland Health between 2019 and 2021, said he had attempted to fix the workplace culture of the DNA analysis lab. Mr Doherty also said ...

The managing scientist at a Queensland DNA lab at the centre of an inquiry has been accused of deliberately misleading police. Managing scientist Cathie Allen faced a second gruelling day of ...

Therese O’Connor, an employee relations worker for Queensland Health at the time a lab bungle over DNA testing emerged, offered a blistering assessment of the Forensic and Scientific Services’ working ...

A senior scientist at the scandal-plagued Queensland Health Forensic and Scientific Services lab has defended its process of testing samples from crime scenes. Allan McNevin told a commission of ...