Australia's Anglican priests will be free to report serious crimes revealed to them during confessions, ending a church law that has its roots in the 12th century.

National MP Maggie Barry has revealed that Rolf Harris groped her during a radio interview she was hosting in the 1980s.

The Govt's ability to monitor 25 high-risk paedophiles will expire next year unless a law to allow supervision orders to be applied indefinitely is pushed through.

For once, Prime Minister Tony Abbott spoke for all Australians.

Murray McCully says it was "good and proper process" for him to leave the case of a Malaysian diplomat accused of sex crimes to authorities for seven weeks.

Stewart Murray Wilson has been declined parole because he still poses an undue risk to the community, the Parole Board has decided.

The Malaysian Government asked NZ to drop all charges and seal the court record of an official accused of sexual assault, documents released by NZ officials show.

The Harris family was accused of making staged entrances at Southwark Crown Court, as if to present a united front for the benefit of the media.

The Malaysian Government asked New Zealand to drop all charges against a diplomat accused of sexual assault, newly released documents show.

A diplomat accused of a sex crime was ordered out of New Zealand after invoking full diplomatic immunity.

Investigators say the late BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile abused victims aged from 5 to 75 - and may even have performed sex acts on the dead.

Jurors in the Rolf Harris trial have asked a series of questions of the judge as they continue deliberating in the complex child sex abuse case.

Justice Minister Judith Collins will head to a summit on ending sexual violence, which is being chaired by Hollywood star and UN Special Envoy Angelina Jolie.

Rolf Harris's older brother and manager Bruce says he "wasn't trying to get her to change her story" when he rang a witness in his brother's sex trial.

No charges will be laid against a group of rugby players accused of raping a young woman while they were in Wanganui for a match last year.

To his alleged victims, Rolf Harris is a dirty old man and serial abuser. But to those standing by the embattled entertainer he's warm, friendly and a 'great hugger'.

Rolf Harris will continue to give evidence from the witness box next week after his child sex abuse trial was delayed by legal argument.

Rolf Harris appeared tetchy at times during his third day in the witness box which started with him acknowledging his daughter was "beside herself" over an abuse claim.

Rolf Harris has admitted in a London court that he may have sexually admired his daughter's 13-year-old friend when she joined his family on an overseas holiday.

'Don't hold it against him', said the judge of the sketches Rolf Harris had been making in court during his sex trial after concerns by jurors.

Rolf Harris has told a London court he was flattered and his heart started "thumping like mad" when an 18-year-old friend of his daughter came on to him in the 1980s.

A girl at the centre of the Roast Busters scandal has had a "terrible" time since she went to the police and those close to her are worried she will give up her fight for justice.

A report looking at whether police gave the wrong information to the public over the Roastbusters case has found a systemic breakdown in communication.

A boy aged just 12 to 16 is being sought over indecent assaults on five women in the Papakura area of Auckland since December.

A New Zealander has told a British court Rolf Harris was a 'disgusting, vile' man who assaulted her when she was a teenager in 1970.

The Independent Police Conduct Authority is set to release its report into the botched police handling of the publicity around the Roast Busters rape investigation within the next week.