In 2021 an arrest warrant was issued by the NSW Supreme Court for the arrest of Shane Dowling (me), and it is up to the Queensland police to enforce the arrest warrant but only if NSW authorities want them to. To date, it has not happened, and I remain a fugitive working as a journalist.

Since then, I have published numerous important articles and videos, which often are not covered by the old media and sometimes no one else.

For example, I published an article in July 2026 titled “NACC cover-up scandal exposes Inspector Gail Furness SC and Greens Senator David Shoebridge” that showed Gail Furness had protected former NACC Commissioner Paul Brereton, not once, but twice. No other media has reported all the facts that I did in the article.

And more recently, I published an article in August 2026 titled, “Exclusive: Zionist fraudster Frank Schiefler, who works for Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal, is a Liberal Party candidate in Victoria“. No other media have reported the story yet, but it will become a major election story, online at least, leading up to the Victorian state election to be held on the 28th of November 2026.

Being able to publish important articles and videos holding powerful people to account, while and having an arrest warrant hanging over my head, I think is a fair achievement.

And with the old media crumbling both financially and morally work by independent journalists, including myself, is more important than ever.

Background to the NSW arrest warrant

It has been 5 years since Justice Kelly Rees issued an arrest warrant for journalist Shane Dowling (me) to serve 10 months jail for contempt of court on the instructions of Kerry Strokes’ Channel Seven and its parent company, Seven West Media. The arrest warrant was issued at the Supreme Court of NSW on the 3rd of September 2021.

I have published 4 previous annual articles on the matter, and last year I reviewed an article written by The Sydney Morning Herald journalist Kate McClymont published on the 6th of September 2021 on the matter, and it hasn’t aged well for either Justice Kelly Rees or Kate McClymont. (Click here to read the 2025 “4 years on the run” article)

In the 3rd anniversary article, I wrote a detailed background to the warrant and said in part:

This is the third time Kerry Stokes’ Seven have had journalist Shane Dowling charged with contempt. The first time backfired badly, and Stokes and Seven have a lot to answer for, but when an old media company is having new media journalists jailed, all media should be asking some serious questions.

They have issued an arrest warrant, as I live in Queensland, and Justice Rees and other judges refused to transfer the matter to Queensland even though I made several applications to have it transferred so I could go to court.

They transferred the Capilano Honey v Simon Mulvany defamation matter from Sydney to Melbourne in 2017 so they could have transferred this matter to Queensland. This makes me a fugitive in my own country.

I am currently free in Queensland, where I originate from and where I have lived since November 2019, and if I am arrested, I intend on fighting the extradition to NSW on numerous legal grounds.

Kerry Stokes’ Seven West Media and the Seven Network

The contempt of court was a private prosecution by the Kerry Stokes-controlled Seven West Media and the Seven Network, who have stalked me with multiple SLAPP Lawsuits, since 2014 for exposing Kerry Stokes’ and Seven’s corruption.

Ironically, Stokes’ right-hand man, Bruce McWilliam, lied to a journalist and said Seven had nothing to do with the court case, which is something that would also be raised at any extradition hearing. (Click here to read more)

The Seven Network, its parent company Seven West Media and major shareholder Kerry Stokes are the same companies and person who have in recent times spent $millions paying for Ben Roberts-Smith’s failed defamation case to try and hide Roberts-Smith’s war crimes. (Click here to read the full article)

You might be wondering, how come I have never been arrested? I also deal with that in last year’s article where I say:

The problem the NSW government has is the 2021 trial in the NSW Supreme Court breached the Queensland Human Rights Act which protects my rights to a fair trial. And if the NSW government did try to arrest me and then extradite me to NSW, they would be in breach of the Queensland Human Rights Act for a second time.

The NSW government would have to instruct lawyers and barristers to lie and deceive like no tomorrow to have any chance, but even then, it would be futile.

Running an argument at an extradition hearing that my human rights under the Queensland Human Rights Act have been breached would put the NSW Government, NSW Supreme Court, Justice Kelly Rees and others on trial for breaching the Queensland Human Rights Act. That is a gauntlet that none of them would ever want to run. (Click here to read more)

I wrote to the NSW Premier and Attorney-General in October 2023, and they advised they can’t do anything, and they gave me the contact details for the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (NSW ICAC).

I wrote to the NSW ICAC and lodged a complaint, and they wrote back saying they wouldn’t do anything.

Neither the NSW Premier, NSW Attorney-General nor the NSW ICAC said to hand myself in, they only said they couldn’t do anything.

They should just quash the warrant, but it’s a hot potato nobody in the NSW government wants to go near.

I don’t intend on staying a fugitive the rest of my life, and I will start pushing the issue to see what they do.

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