[1] The book caused an outcry in the medical profession as Rice called for more injured patients to sue their doctors – and provided them with a comprehensive how-to guide to do it.

[citation needed] He has been a vocal opponent of privacy laws which seek to restrict the rights of the media, particularly the use of cameras in public places[3] or which purport to ensure freedom of information but actually prevent it.

"[5][6] Rice’s decade-long battle to keep Sunday as a serious public affairs program is featured in Gerald Stone’s insider account of Channel Nine, Compulsive Viewing.

In April 2016, Stephen Rice, Tara Brown and seven other people (including two other staff members of the Nine Network, David Ballment, and Ben Williamson)[9] were arrested on allegations of child abduction in Beirut while covering the story of Sally Faulkner, an Australian woman attempting to regain custody of her two children.

Lebanese judicial sources told The Guardian that the group were to be charged with "armed abduction, purveying threats and physical harm" - crimes which carry sentences of twenty years imprisonment with hard labour.