True Crime False Narratives : A Panel on Wrongful Convictions in Australia
Sky Parra
Panel Discussion :
Saturday 17 May 2025
Doors Open 6:30pm | Event from 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Duration : 120 minutes. Includes Interval
TICKETS :
General Admission $25
Concession $20
SAC Associate Members $18
Your ticket includes a complimentary drink on arrival – come early, settle in, and prepare for a night of raw truths and expert insight, where you’ll hear from the real voices behind the headlines.
This event is brought to you by the DENIED project alongside the exhibition DENIED : Portraits of Wrongful Conviction.
Exclusive one-night-only event, top minds in law, forensics & art unpack wrongful convictions. Seats are limited – booking essential.
True Crime, False Narratives is a one-night-only live event pulling back the curtain on Australia’s criminal justice system. On Saturday 17 May 2025 at 7:00pm in The Founders Room, join leading experts in law, forensic science, and art as they unpack some of our nation’s most unsettling cases.
Can you imagine losing years of your life for a crime you didn’t commit – trapped in a system that refuses to admit its mistakes? Wrongful convictions have profound, enduring consequences: they erase identities, distort time, and inflict a deep psychological toll, all while the true perpetrators walk free. In a system that determines justice, the stakes couldn’t be higher.
Hear from :
Stuart Tipple – Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton’s defence lawyer (event moderator)
Dr Byron Collins – Australia’s first independent forensic pathologist
Dr Robyn Blewer – Director of Griffith University’s Innocence Project
Dr Robert Moles – Legal scholar specialising in wrongful conviction
Associate Professor Bibi Sangha – Legal scholar specialising in wrongful conviction
Sky Parra – Visual artist & researcher (event host)
Tipple, Collins, and Blewer bring invaluable insights from their decades of work uncovering wrongful convictions and fighting for justice, while Moles and Sanga expose the systemic failures that allow these injustices to happen. How do wrongful convictions occur? Who is responsible for setting them right? If these appeals succeeded, how many more innocent people remain behind bars?
From flawed evidence to investigative bias, this panel will reveal the shortcomings of our criminal justice system – and what must be done to fix them.
Parra, will introduce you to the faces of wrongful conviction through her portrait project DENIED. Travelling across Australia to meet and paint those wrongfully convicted of serious crimes, her collaborative practice acknowledges individual stories, confronting injustice in a way that cannot be ignored.
