Media appearances
The media appearances listed below run from January 2022 — when I was appointed a lecturer at Sydney Law School — to the present. I have not kept a record of appearances before 2022.
Television and video broadcasts
- 27 May 2026 ‘Unlawful’ employment services penalties not addressed in overhaul, expert saysABC News (Australia)
- 12 May 2026 Tougher penalties on organised crimeABC News (NSW; Alexander Lewis)
- 2 Apr 2026 NSW hate speech laws: neo-Nazi rally and the Sackar ReviewABC News (NSW; Alexander Lewis)
- 14 Oct 2025 Deloitte report caught with AI generated reference errorsAM Agenda (Sky News; Laura Jayes)
- 10 Oct 2025 Deloitte caught out using AI in $440,000 report7.30 (ABC; Jason Ohm)
- 4 Jul 2025 IVF Under the Microscope: Embryo Bungles Give Rise to Anxious Parents7 News (Channel 7; Natarsha Belling)
- 13 Jun 2025 Baby bungles: Monash IVF revealed two embryo mix-ups in two months7 News (Channel 7; Natarsha Belling)
- 12 Apr 2025 Case of IVF mix-up sits in unchartered legal territory, experts warnNine News (Channel 9; Abbey Geran)
- 11 Apr 2025 IVF Bungle: Monash IVF Apologises after Woman gives Birth to Stranger’s BabyABC News
- 26 Mar 2025 Robodebt and the National Anti-Corruption CommissionBetween Parkes Place and Capital Hill (Six News Australia; with Stuart Jeffrey)
- 25 Jan 2025 Botulism from Cosmetic InjectablesNine News (Channel 9; 6pm bulletin)
- 3 Dec 2024 More men are getting Botox, as the industry boomsThe Business (ABC)
- 25 Nov 2024 Drugs like Ozempic have been dubbed ‘wonder drugs’ for helping people lose weight, but patients in the US are suing over alleged side effects, claiming drug manufacturers failed to warn them about the risksThe Project (Channel 10)
- 14 May 2024 Pig kidney transplant patient dies two months after surgery in USThe World (ABC)
- 12 Jul 2023 Neurosurgeon Charlie Teo found guilty of unsatisfactory professional conductABC News Television
- 13 Jan 2022 Australia forces people to report COVID-19 infections. Experts: It may make people afraid of testingPhoenix TV South Pacific and Australia
Radio, podcasts, audio interviews
- 11 Aug 2026 Regional Australians struggling to get access to VAD doctorsAM (ABC Radio National; Lucy Barbour)
- 13 Jul 2026 Mirror life and the Doomsday ClockABC Radio Sydney, Afternoons (Mark Humphries)
- 15 Jun 2026 University of Sydney NTEU Bargaining Podcast – Episode 5 – feat. Jen Dowling and Chris RudgeUniversity of Sydney NTEU Bargaining Podcast Guest appearance with Jen Dowling, hosted by Peter Chen. Christopher Rudge contributed as an AI subject-matter expert during the 2026 bargaining round.
- 27 May 2026 JobSeeker changestriple j Hack (Dave Marchese and Shannon Schubert; audio excerpt)
- 27 May 2026 Amanda Rishworth explains overhaul of unemployment systemABC RN Breakfast (Sally Sara; audio excerpt; my comment was put by the host to the Minister of DEWR)
- 27 May 2026 Government pitches unemployment services shake-upPM (ABC Radio National; Samantha Donovan)
- 27 May 2026 Employment services overhaulDrive (ABC Radio Sydney)
- 27 May 2026 Government announces biggest shake up to employment services in decadesABC RN Breakfast (Sally Sara, produced by Grace Stranger)
- 12 May 2026 Does EMDR therapy taint a witness’s recollection?The Law Report (ABC Radio National; Damien Carrick)
- 12 Mar 2026 NACC’s Operation Myrtleford: corrupt conduct findings and why criminal prosecution is now effectively impossibleABC RN Breakfast (Sally Sara)
- 27 Oct 2025 Deloitte AI brouhaha distracted from real story of welfare crisisThe Radio National Hour (ABC Radio National; Michael Rowland, prod Grace Stranger)
- 24 Oct 2025 ‘Don’t do a Deloitte’: the AI stuff-up that ricocheted around the worldThe Fin (Australian Financial Review; Paul Karp and Edmund Tadros)
- 7 Oct 2025 AI-use in the Targeted Compliance Framework ReportABC News Radio (Amber Jacobs)
- 6 Oct 2025 Deloitte’s AI-generated reportMornings (ABC Radio Melbourne; Rafael Epstein)
- 19 Sep 2025 Tamra Lysaght and Christopher Rudge on regulating embryo research and health innovationsSHE Research Podcast (Sydney Health Ethics; Gabriel Watts)
- 17 Sep 2025 Robodebt saga reaches a massive turning point as victims receive compensationThe Wire (2SER; Thomas Koutis)
- 20 Jun 2025 New laws to be introduced as part of an initiative to address unsafe practices within the cosmetic industryRazor’s Edge (2SER; Thomas Koutis)
- 13 Jun 2025 Monash IVF and the regulation of the ART sectorMornings (ABC Radio Goulburn Murray; Alice Walker)
- 10 Jun 2025 Will new rules for cosmetic injectables make these procedures safer for Aussies?Life Matters (ABC Radio National; Tegan Taylor, Kate Uebergang)
- 11 Apr 2025 Australian Woman Implanted by Embryo by MistakeNews Hour (BBC World Service; Paul Henley)
- 4 Mar 2025 Can people really commit crime whilst asleep?Motive & Method podcast (with Dr Xanthe Mallet and Tim Watson-Munro)
- 11 Feb 2025 Criminal defences of sexsomnia and parasomniaThe Law Report (ABC Radio National; with Damien Carrick)
- 4 Feb 2025 Unexpected Charges Billed to Patients by GPs for Specialist Referrals: Are they Illegal?ABC NewsRadio (with Laura Tchilinguirian)
- 19 Dec 2024 Rehabilitation or punishment? Mental Health in Australian PrisonsThe Wire (2SER)
- 19 Dec 2024 US Grandmother Receives Genetically Modified Pig Kidney Xenotransplant720 ABC Radio Perth
- 29 Apr 2024 TGA rules on injectablesABC Drive Canberra
- 5 Mar 2024 Will a Crackdown end the Botox Boom?ABC Listen
- 21 Dec 2023 Voluntary assisted dying now legal in NSW – all the laws explainedSIX News Australia
- 22 Sep 2023 Inquiry into the Pandemic ResponseABC News Radio Breakfast
- 12 Sep 2023 Cosmetic Crackdown: Will it be harder to get Injectables?The Quicky (Mamamia)
- 7 Jul 2023 A Shameful Chapter: Robodebt Royal Commission to Hand Down its FindingsABC News Radio
- 30 Apr 2023 Stopping irreversible medical procedures on intersex childrenSIX News Australia
- 22 Mar 2023 New Endorsement Model For Cosmetic Surgeons In AustraliaThe Wire (2SER)
- 21 Feb 2023 Learn me Right in Gene TherapyLearn me Right in Health Law and Bioethics podcast (Australian Centre for Health Law Research)
- 26 Jan 2023 Cosmetic surgeonsEastside FM
Selected newspaper and magazine quotations or citations
- 30 Sep 2026 Vaccini Covid: l’inchiesta sui limiti del sistema di sicurezza USAAmeVe Blog (Italy; Amerigo) Italian-language secondary coverage citing Christopher Rudge’s comments through Open’s reporting.
- 29 Sep 2026 Cosa dice davvero l’inchiesta BMJ sul Vaers e i vaccini CovidOpen (Italy; Fabio Verrecchia) Italian-language fact-check citing Christopher Rudge’s expert commentary supplied to the Australian Science Media Centre.
- 29 Sep 2026 Cosa dice davvero l’inchiesta BMJ sul Vaers e i vaccini CovidMSN Italia (Italy; Fabio Verrecchia) Republication of Open’s fact-check carrying Christopher Rudge’s comments.
- 29 Sep 2026 Cosa dice davvero l’inchiesta BMJ sul Vaers e i vaccini CovidRNAnews (Italy) Republication of Open’s fact-check carrying Christopher Rudge’s comments.
- 17 Sept 2026 Possible flaws found in early US COVID vaccine safety monitoring – Expert ReactionScience Media Centre NZ / Australian Science Media Centre Expert commentary responding to a BMJ investigation into vaccine-safety monitoring. Also published by the Australian Science Media Centre on Scimex. Scimex version.
- 31 Aug 2026 Understanding the medical certificate rules Australia: a comprehensive guide for doctorsMJA Insight+ (Tracey Cheung)
- 11 Aug 2026 Dying woman’s last-minute plea to prime minister to allow telehealth for voluntary assisted dyingABC News Written report by Lucy Barbour quoting Christopher Rudge; companion to the AM radio item on the same date.
- 9 Aug 2026 Centrelink pursuing debts that are more than 40 years old despite agreeing to waive old arrearsThe Guardian (Cait Kelly)
- 4 Aug 2026 Tested on pigs, bad data but given to ambos anyway: Homegrown defibrillator’s red flagsThe Age (Henrietta Cook and Liam Mannix)
- 1 Aug 2026 Broken teeth, locked jaws: Clear aligner company made money while nobody was watchingThe Sydney Morning Herald (Liam Mannix and Henrietta Cook)
- 20 Jul 2026 Third-degree burns and skin grafts: The popular medical device that left a trail of injured childrenThe Sydney Morning Herald (Henrietta Cook)
- 19 Jul 2026 Sparking, burning and a 50-second delay: The deadly loophole in Australia’s medical device rulesThe Age (Henrietta Cook and Liam Mannix)
- 16 Jul 2026 Delay in cyber attack notification ‘not acceptable’, says expertMedical Republic (Helen Tobler)
- 16 Jul 2026 Delay in revealing Partnered Health breach and stolen patient data ‘unacceptable’ABC News (Will Murray)
- 12 Jul 2026 Potential of ‘mirror life’ technology has Doomsday Clock scientists alarmed. This is whyABC News (ABC Science; Ellen Phiddian)
- 1 Jul 2026 Victim-survivors of alleged sexual abuse speak out on legal impact of receiving EMDR therapyABC News (Emily Baker)
- 23 Jun 2026 Unapproved gene therapy for boosting longevity is set to go on saleNew Scientist (Alice Klein)
- 22 Jun 2026 How leading hospitals could make every experimental treatment countUniversity of Sydney (research impact)Internal University media (institutional communications), not independent journalism.
- 27 May 2026 New rules for a million Aussies on Centrelink payment as changes to employment system announcedYahoo Finance Australia (Nick Whigham)
- 27 May 2026 No more endless job applications to get the dole in Labor overhaulAustralian Financial Review
- 27 May 2026 Government pitches largest overhaul to unemployment system in decadesABC News (Holly Tregenza)
- 19 May 2026 Medicinal cannabis: Inside the world of pharma-controlled clinics and ‘5-minute’ consultsCHOICE (James Worsfold)
- 1 Apr 2026 Tech giants face their ‘big tobacco’ momentHealthed (Sophia Auld)
- 25 Mar 2026 US jury finds Meta and Google platforms are addictive and harmful to childrenSMB Tech
- 19 Mar 2026 The ‘catch-22’ protecting Robodebt bureaucrats from criminal prosecutionABC News (Alexander Lewis)
- 14 Feb 2026 DNA genealogy is changing the way NSW Police investigate cold casesABC News (Kelly Fuller)
- 18 Nov 2025 AI is rewriting the consulting playbook—and not everyone is readyMint Industry feature by Devina Sengupta referring to Christopher Rudge’s discovery of errors in Deloitte’s report; secondary coverage, not a separate interview.
- 16 Nov 2025 ‘Consumer pays, consumer risks’: Florida ‘surgery mill’ plans for AustraliaThe Age (Charlotte Grieve)
- 6 Nov 2025 AI-tainted Deloitte report was worse than previously thoughtAustralian Financial Review (Paul Karp)
- 4 Nov 2025 Deloitte AI debacle underscores need for government contract transparency: OCP saysAccounting Times (Emma Partis)
- 2 Nov 2025 Centrelink threatening payment suspensions at rate of five a minute, new analysis suggestsThe Guardian (Cait Kelly)
- 30 Oct 2025 Deloitte returns thousands of dollars to the Australian government over a report with AI errorsAra (Spain; Aleix Graell Núñez) Also in the print edition.
- 25 Oct 2025 Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?The Guardian (Cait Kelly)
- 24 Oct 2025 Robodole rapidly morphs from narrative to sagaThe Mandarin (Verona Burgess)
- 18 Oct 2025 QuotesThe Saturday Paper
- 15 Oct 2025 Deloitte discovers the dangers of AI content after chatbot errors in government reportThe Australian (Nick Evans)
- 13 Oct 2025 How one academic unravelled Deloitte’s AI errorsAustralian Financial Review (Paul Karp)
- 12 Oct 2025 ‘Oversight was not followed’: Deloitte apologises for AI reportAustralian Financial Review (Edmund Tadros)
- 10 Oct 2025 Deloitte Australia’s AI Blunder: Discrepancies And Errors In A $440k ReportMediaNama
- 9 Oct 2025 Deloitte to refund government after using AI in $440k reportAccounting Times Republication of Daniel Croft’s Cyber Daily report carrying Christopher Rudge’s comments; not a separate interview.
- 8 Oct 2025 How to Teach Critical Thinking When AI Does the ThinkingPsychology Today Secondary commentary referring to Christopher Rudge’s discovery of errors in the Deloitte report; not an interview.
- 8 Oct 2025 Deloitte to refund government after using AI in $440k reportCyber Daily Secondary report by Daniel Croft carrying Christopher Rudge’s comments through earlier coverage; not a separate interview.
- 8 Oct 2025 Law Professor Catches Deloitte Using Made-Up AI Hallucinations In Government ReportAbove the Law Secondary commentary by Kathryn Rubino quoting Christopher Rudge through Associated Press; not a separate interview.
- 8 Oct 2025 Deloitte’s AI governance failure exposes critical gap in enterprise quality controlsComputerworld Interview by Gyana Swain about the discovery of fabricated sources in Deloitte’s report and the importance of expert review.
- 7 Oct 2025 Deloitte to repay Australian government after $440,000 report produced using AI was found with multiple errorsMint Secondary report by Eshita Gain reusing Christopher Rudge’s comments about the Deloitte report; not a separate interview.
- 7 Oct 2025 Deloitte’s AI-generated Australian government reportFortune Associated Press republication/adaptation carrying Christopher Rudge’s comments on the Deloitte report; not a separate interview. Descriptive shortened title.
- 7 Oct 2025 „KI-Gatsch“ in Bericht: Deloitte erstattet Australien Geld zurückORF German-language secondary coverage including Christopher Rudge’s comments attributed through Associated Press; not a separate interview.
- 7 Oct 2025 Deloitte forced to refund Aussie government after admitting it used AI to produce error-strewn reportTechRadar Pro Secondary report by Craig Hale quoting Christopher Rudge through the Australian Financial Review; not a separate interview.
- 7 Oct 2025 Deloitte to partially refund Australian government for report with apparent AI-generated errorsAssociated Press Report by Rod McGuirk quoting Christopher Rudge about his discovery of errors in the Deloitte report. Original AP report, subsequently republished by other outlets.
- 6 Oct 2025 Deloitteov AI fijasko: Povrat novca nakon izvješća punog ‘halucinacija’Bloomberg Adria Croatian-language secondary coverage naming and quoting Christopher Rudge; not a separate interview.
- 6 Oct 2025 Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled reportArs Technica Secondary report by Kyle Orland quoting Christopher Rudge through the Australian Financial Review; not a separate interview.
- 6 Oct 2025 Deloitte refunds Australian government over AI in reportThe Register Secondary coverage quoting Christopher Rudge through earlier reporting; not a separate interview.
- 6 Oct 2025 Law lecturer Christopher Rudge slams Deloitte’s government-funded report written with AIThe Nightly Interview and report by Aaron Patrick about Christopher Rudge’s discovery of errors in Deloitte’s government-funded report.
- 5 Oct 2025 Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k reportAustralian Financial Review Report by Edmund Tadros and Paul Karp quoting Christopher Rudge on Deloitte’s admission of AI use and proposed refund.
- 13 Sep 2025 $548.5 million: The price the government is willing to pay ‘to avoid a public trial’ of robodebtSBS News (Emma Brancatisano)
- 29 Aug 2025 Robodole, another gift that keeps on givingThe Mandarin (Verona Burgess)
- 27 Aug 2025 Deloitte report suspected of containing AI invented quoteAustralian Financial Review (Paul Karp)
- 22 Aug 2025 Academics raise alarm over suspected AI use in Deloitte reportAustralian Financial Review (Paul Karp)
- 14 Aug 2025 Inside the Botox black market: Leaked messages reveal ‘illegal’ trading networkSydney Morning Herald (Clay Lucas and Henrietta Cook)
- 18 Jul 2025 Is there a need for more stringent IVF regulation in Australia?LSJ Online (Law Society of New South Wales Journal; Wendy Yang)
- 18 Jul 2025 Mitochondrial donation allowed babies to be born without deadly diseaseCOSMOS Magazine (Imma Perfetto)
- 17 Jul 2025 Labor may wipe $1.1b in welfare debt after landmark rulingAustralian Financial Review (Paul Karp)
- 14 Jun 2025 The IVF industry is under the microscope after Monash IVF apologised for a second embryo bungle. How rare is a mistake?ABC News (Kate McKenna and Janelle Miles)
- 12 Jun 2025 Monash IVF bungle leaves booming sector under the spotlightAustralian Financial Review (Euan Black)
- 12 Jun 2025 Calls for federal IVF regulation and DNA testing after second Monash embryo mix-upABC News (Janelle Miles and Kate McKenna)
- 1 May 2025 Law Professor’s Anti-abortion Claims Causing Considerable Distress, MP SaysLawyersWeekly (Naomi Neilson)
- 12 Apr 2025 Health regulator asks Monash IVF for more details on baby bungle, birth parents hire lawyersHerald Sun (Sarah Booth and Laura Placella)
- 12 Apr 2025 Child involved in Monash IVF mix-up was conceived in early 2023 and is now a toddler, sources sayABC News (Jessica Black et al)
- 22 Mar 2025 Gone in 52 seconds: Inside Australia’s telehealth injectables gold rushThe Age (Clay Lucas and Henrietta Cook)
- 19 Mar 2025 NSW abortion bill would not force shutdown of all Christian hospitalsAAP Fact Check (Soofia Tariq)
- 6 Mar 2025 Services Australia defends controversial debt recovery method at federal courtGuardian Australia (Cait Kelly)
- 24 Feb 2025 NSW Greens abortion access bill faces push-back from anti-choice activistsGreen Left (Pip Henman)
- 24 Feb 2025 ‘Sleepwalking Defence: “No Lawful Control”‘WHO Magazine (Kylie Walters) 44–45
- 10 Feb 2025 Are you responsible for crimes you commit in your sleep? Parasomnia as a legal defenceSBS News (Amy Hall)
- 3 Dec 2024 Botox and cosmetic injectables industry booming but safety feared to be the costABC News
- 30 Nov 2024 Millions of Australians charged $4.3bn may be part of debt miscalculation controversyGuardian Australia
- 13 Jun 2024 Health minister intervenes in chiropractors’ decision to allow spinal manipulation of babiesThe Age
- 26 Apr 2024 The TGA is cracking down on cosmetic injectable ads. Will this protect vulnerable Australians or ‘blanket’ information?ABC RN
- 26 Apr 2024 Proposed reforms may publicise health practitioners’ past misconductAesthetic Medical Practitioner
- 13 Apr 2024 Exclusive: Babies are being left off Medicare as department foundersThe Saturday Paper
- 7 Dec 2023 Two people were jailed for welfare debts that Centrelink may have calculated unlawfullyThe Guardian
- 3 Dec 2023 Thalidomide: ‘Darkest chapter’ in Australia’s medical historyNews.com.au
- 2 Nov 2023 Dozens of Centrelink fraud prosecutions dropped due to unlawful welfare debt calculationsThe Guardian
- 30 Sep 2023 Influencers, complimentary cosmetic procedures and the slippery slope of social mediaMamamia
- 27 Sep 2023 The COVID inquiry – overdue, important, critiqued and facing a big task aheadCroakey Health Media (Melissa Sweet)
- 12 Aug 2023 Prosecutors pause dozens of criminal cases after Services Australia miscalculated debtsThe Guardian
- 12 Aug 2023 Exclusive: DPP reviews prosecutions for false welfare debtsThe Saturday Paper
- 21 Sep 2022 Insurer revokes celebrity surgeon’s medical cover, preventing further workSydney Morning Herald
- 21 Sep 2022 Celebrity surgeon’s company used faulty amputee device against internal adviceSydney Morning Herald
- 12 Jan 2022 RAT reporting rules ‘very unenforceable’The West Australian
- 12 Jan 2022 RAT reporting rules ‘very unenforceable’Newcastle Herald
- 12 Jan 2022 ‘Massive surge’: Spike in COVID cases as NSW records rapid testsSydney Morning Herald
- 28 Mar 2018 The ‘Mad King’ ConundrumMedical Republic (Felicity Nelson)
Non-academic writing
- 20 Apr 2012 Review: FootnoteConcrete Playground
- 5 Mar 2012 Review: MUSECOLOGY (Part 2): Mnemonic MuseumConcrete Playground
- 20 Feb 2012 Review: Bode In Oz: Mark Bode’s Cartoon ConcertConcrete Playground
- 12 Feb 2012 Review: Wunder PondConcrete Playground
- Various other reviews for Concrete Playground here.