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Lucrezia Borgia

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Lucrezia Borgia

thanks Nori - many of the journos I work with have been caught out by this section - they have numerous sources who want to go on the record and tell their story - as a way of healing, for themselves personally - but hopefully too to bring the issue of sexual assault to light so it can be aired in a full and frank discussion with a view to understanding how we can stop it. no good comes out of stopping discussion and hiding issues away where no one can see them, air them, or talk about them. Its a horrible piece of legislation - the law indeed can be an ass.

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Agree, poor legislation rushed through when cooler heads would have spotted the unintended consequences. Bit of a pattern for Andrews.

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So people have to go to court why? Why can only a magistrate determine whether there's any kind of minor rights involved? Surely it could be a purely administrative form type application process where it's assessed by the relevant child protection authority just to double check before granting permission to the survivor. Or would that be too practical for govts these days? Seems overkill to the point of creating an unintended barrier

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The legislation has been changed a few weeks ago - though it never should have happened in the first place. Fixing it was part of the Justice Legislation Amendment (Supporting Victims and Other Matters) Act 2020. Adult victim survivors now don’t have to go to court to tell their own story. The Let Us Speak campaign was really instrumental in this

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The legislation has been changed a few weeks ago - though it never should have happened in the first place. Fixing it was part of the Justice Legislation Amendment (Supporting Victims and Other Matters) Act 2020. Adult victim survivors now don’t have to go to court to tell their own story. The Let Us Speak campaign was really instrumental in this

 

Isn’t there still some issues to thrash out?

 

Yes - the provisions relating to deceased victims mentioned above were removed during the parliamentary debate, for consultation with families which I think will happen early 2021. In the meantime, the status quo is that deceased victims can be identified.

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