Artist Anthony Lister found not guilty

I've made a video with Lister talking about this whole extraordinary story. Please watch it and circulate it to your networks. There's much to be learnt from his revelations about being ripped off by lousy lawyers, how bail conditions set him up for repeat imprisonment, the horrors of our prisons, five years of hounding by the press, and the devastation of a hung jury after a 6-week criminal trial in 2024 – which led to the final trial last year.

I think you'll find Lister's story most compelling, and an important expose of how our justice system is being hijacked by feminist ideology determined to take down prominent men. It's very important you help me promote it so that Lister's innocence is well publicised.

It is simply outrageous that our media has failed so dismally to expose how the evidence of these complainants was roundly rejected by a jury. The media naturally failed to report that several complainants were confronted with proof that their version of events was untrue, in devastating cross-examination by Margaret Cunneen SC.

The one-eyed journalists – from the ABC, The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH), The Guardian and the like – crusaded against a suppression order which was imposed to protect Lister's identity, long after the news of his arrest had been broadcast worldwide. Eventually that suppression order was lifted but the judge, Michael John King, took the very unusual step of commenting on the unbalanced coverage of the case, which failed to include all Lister's acquittals in earlier trials. He mentioned he was so disappointed in the SMH that he had just cancelled his subscription!

Astoundingly, SMH journalist, Clare Sibthorpe, said in court she wasn't interested in covering the verdict if Lister was acquitted. And sure enough, the paper has refused to publish the fact that the jury ultimately threw it all out. (I urge you to write to the SMH editor, Jordan Baker – here - to complain.)

The current slogan being used to advertise the Sydney Morning Herald is "Here's to reason" – claiming to make a "powerful statement on the value of balanced, responsible journalism in a deeply polarised world." What a joke!

There's an interesting back story to my involvement in this case. Anthony Lister's mother became involved in setting up Mothers of Sons, the website campaigning for fair treatment for men in our courts. She contacted us initially about another son who was confronted by false rape allegations being made in a family law battle by his disturbed, drug-addicted ex-partner – read the whole dreadful saga here.

Nearly four years later I had a phone call from this mother, telling me that now her other son, Anthony, was under siege. Worse, they were running out of money having given over half a million dollars to the major Sydney criminal law firm which had failed dismally to look after him.

In the end the brilliant barrister Margaret Cunneen SC stepped in to help him, and it was her team's hard work and her expert handling of the jury which led to the final acquittal on all remaining charges. Here they are after the verdict: