60 Minutes Australia:
Time for Justice

May 24, 2026

Following the chilling release of the unredacted Epstein files, Melanie Stansbury exposes the horrifying extent of the sexual abuse, grooming, and trafficking that took place at Jeffrey Epstein’s secretive Zorro Ranch in New Mexico.

With the state’s Department of Justice reopening a previously suppressed investigation and physically searching the 7,500-acre property for evidence, and potentially buried bodies, the fight to expose a massive federal cover-up and bring powerful co-conspirators to justice has finally begun.

Melanie says we need to: make sure that we have a Department of Justice that will seek justice, that will try these cases and will ultimately hold perpetrators accountable, that that evidence is there.

And I think broader than that, the survivors have been very clear that it’s not just about having justice in the court system and in the justice system itself, but also that justice means that we leave a world behind for the next generation of women where women know what sexual assault looks like. that women know they can say no, and that they don’t find themselves in these situations in the future.

And so there’s a broader piece of this that is about culture change and about changing the system itself and not electing leaders that are going to allow abuse like this to go unchecked and frankly electing more women.

. . . a culture change also has to include faith that if you make an allegation and a complaint, it will be investigated and perpetrators will be prosecuted . . .

I think that their lived experience has told them (the victims) that the system has failed them over and over again.

And I think that is ultimately what myself, and the women serving in Congress, and the women leading the truth commission want to change, which is that we build a system of governance, of leadership that ultimately not only believes women, but empowers them and puts them in positions of power to make decisions for our communities.