& here's the #LetUsSpeak washup feature 4 the week: w Chrissie Foster, @JohnHer49389874, Saeed Maasarwe & @_Nic_Lee: “I don’t want to ever be in a courtroom again.”
TLDR: The law will change for living survivors 2 restore agency & the planned gag on deceased families is stalled
@DonaldMcleish
We still haven't seen a copy of the final amended bill. But this article here may help. Essentially living survivors will be able to self identify (if 18+, have capacity, don't ID another victim). The Govt will consult further re: naming deceased vics but 4 now /1
their attempt to automatically gag them without consultation has been thwarted. Consultation with families of deceased victims will begin and continue into next year at which point further reform MAY be recommended. But this gives those families a fighting chance to have a say.
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The Vic Govt spin doctors are in over-drive today.
On 14/10/20 @JillHennessyMP BOASTED in 2nd reading speech that the proposed restriction on naming deceased sexual assault victims would "enhance" the privacy of dead
NOW they are changing their story entirely... /1 #LetUsSpeak
They r now claiming they r working hard to fix a gag on naming deceased victims which they claim has ALWAYS been in place.
This is outright false (just look at the existing legislation...)
It is the Govt who are actively INSERTING the below into the legislation w this bill /2
This new section makes it explicit that a court order would be needed to name deceased victims... and it outlines what the steps would be. This is not law yet It is what THEY are PROPOSING.
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NOW Australia - the brain fart of Tracey Spicer - has announced it is closing, having never actually established the Triage system which Spicer & Co collected over $120,000 of public donations to fund.
There were some good ppl involved but this was a /1
.... always going to be a failed initiative from the beginning. Put simply, you can't magically triage people to services which either don't exist, or which are already stretched beyond capacity. Something Spicer would have known had they properly consulted the sector b4 launch/2
...Instead, Spicer launched to much fanfare in the media using celeb ambassadors (oh & where was their due diligence?), social media tiles, t-shirt merchandise... & even a specially recorded sound-track for the occasion. Meanwhile, the sector stood around scratching it's head /3
@crikey_news The idea that bc I'm a journo & sexual assault survivor advocate I should b forced 2 "cop a few body blows & move on" is unhelpful, especially when some of those 'body blows' r rape threats. But the idea that I dont work hard for gender equality is just plain funny.
@crikey_news Maybe your journalist didn't have time to research me b4 deadline. I'm not going to list every single thing I've done for gender equality here. I'll let you do the homework. But since we are talking about the 'body blows' I cop - & since it's my body up for discussion (as it...
@crikey_news ...so often is when you're a public sexual assault survivor) I thought it might be an idea for me to give you a bit of insight into the type of 'body blows' I cop, courtesy of Bettina Arndt's ongoing abuse, & the decision by mainstream media to put those defamatory views on blast