Articles and Other Resources

University of Melbourne Indigenous Law and Justice Hub, Justice professionals gather at The Hub for practical application of Bugmy principles, (Article, Melbourne Law School (MLS) Newsroom, June 2026)
Sophie Anderson, Crystal Triggs and Sophie Parsons, The Bugmy Bar Book’s application in Legal Proceedings: ‘From Little Things Big Things Grow’: PR189_Anderson_Triggs_Parsons (Article, Precedent, the Journal of the Australian Lawyers Alliance, August 2025)

Christopher McDonald, A focus on the future: the principles and legacy of Bugmy v The Queen, (Article, Law Society Journal Online, 15 July 2025)

Sophie Anderson, The architects of the Bugmy Bar Book – 10 Years of Change (Article, Judicial Officers Bulletin, Judicial Commission of NSW, October 2023)

Sophie Parsons and Lauren Roycroft, Bugmy 10 Years On: Principles and Practice (Article, Law Institute Journal, Law Institute of Victoria, October 2023)

Lauren Stefanou and Crystal Triggs, The Bugmy Bar Book: Assisting lawyers to understand impacts of adverse experiences (Article, Law Society Journal Online, 5 August 2022)

Nicholas Cowdery AO QC, Professor Jill Hunter and Rebecca McMahon, Sentencing and disadvantage: the use of research to inform the court (Article, June 2020, Judicial Officers Bulletin, Vol 32 No 5)

Judge Sophia Beckett, The Bar Book: Presenting Evidence of Disadvantage (Conference Paper, Public Defenders Annual Criminal Law Conference 2019, Updated 2021)

Should an offender’s disadvantage have an impact on their sentence? – ABC listen (10 March 2026) What arguments and information should courts be hearing when they are sentencing an offender? In April, a tool to assist defence lawyers and judges will go national.
Changing Australia: Dina Yehia and driving systemic change in the courts – ABC listen (31 March 2026) Indigenous Australians are grossly overrepresented in the criminal justice system.
Indigenous people are going to jail at a record rate — what’s the solution? – ABC News (27 February 2026) The number of Indigenous people behind bars is rising. But some judges are bucking the trend by taking a different approach.

2025 UNSW Law & Justice Hal Wootten Lecture with The Honourable Justice Dina Yehia – YouTube (5 November 2025)
Video: Chief Justice Lucy McCallum, ACT Supreme Court – 2024 Paul Byrne Memorial Lecture: The Rule of Law in Modern Australia (28 February 2024)
Video: Belinda Baker SC, Deputy Crown Prosecutor (as her Honour then was) – Bugmy v The Queen and the Bugmy Bar Book (seminar for prosecutors, 2022)

Judge Andrew Haesler SC, Applying Bugmy: An Address to the NSW Legal Aid Commission’s Aboriginal Services Branch (Conference Paper, Legal Aid Aboriginal Cultural Competency Branch Training for Legal Practitioners Day, 31 July 2018)

Judge Stephen Norrish QC, Sentencing Aboriginal Offenders: Striving for Equality before the Law (Conference Paper, Legal Aid Commission Workshop, 1 August 2017)

Judge Stephen Norrish QC, Sentencing Indigenous Offenders – Not enough ‘Judicial Notice’? (Conference Paper, Judicial Conference of Australia Colloquium, 13 October 2013)