In 1979, Justice Philip Woodward’s Royal Commission promised light—and delivered language.

The Law That Never Spoke follows the insiders who saw too much: a clerk who filed a brief that vanished, an AFP officer told to “stay in his lane,” and a system that learned how to silence itself by process, not threat.

Featuring archival material, reconstructed testimony, and the quiet echoes of a nation still balancing its books, Episode 3 traces how the machinery of justice became the machinery of silence.

Every system leaves a paper trail—if you know where to read between the lines.

Credits

Written & Produced by Stephen Johns

Sound Design & Editing by Stephen Johns

Archival Research by Alex G

Archival audio excerpts courtesy of ABC News.

Used under Australian fair dealing provisions for news, reporting, and public interest analysis.

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Justice Philip Woodward audio in part: Crime Investigation Australia: Conviction in Donald Mackay case. 2007. Foxtel

Al Grassby comments: ABC News archives Australia

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