Nina Funnell

misconduct complaints they were receiving.

And so Alison Sandy from Channel 7 and I decided that we would FOI

the non-compliant, we would FOI the police for police reports of sexual assault at these street addresses.

And then we listed the street addresses of the non-compliant universities.

And we got 500 pages of police reports back from that.

And so my job was to go through these 500 pages into catalogue.

And so I knew that there was so much going on here and I'd done all these news reports.

And then what had happened was the

because of a bunch of student activism and the media reporting in 2016 that had highlighted a number of the hazing and sexual assault problems at Sydney University.

Sydney University Colleges commissioned a woman called Elizabeth Broderick to do a review, a million dollar review of their culture.

Now that came out in 2017.

And when I read the report, I was

I mean, I have a lot of respect for Liz in general, but I do not have respect for that report.

It was so watered down and diluted and whitewashed.

And we now know why.

We know that the colleges had a lot of control over the final product.

I was so outraged, as was a colleague of mine, Shana Bremner, that we just thought, well, we're sitting on this

minefield of data here because we've got so much stuff through freedom of information, through student accounts, through photographs, through screenshots of Facebook groups.

Why don't we just pull it all together into a 200-page report, which is what we did.

What made it different from every other report that had come out before then, because the Human Rights Commission had also done a report into the universities, was we named names.