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Ask Grace Tame about that though.
Out of the loop on that. Quick look on Wikipedia suggests she opposed a law that prevented her from talking about her experience.
I can see that's related in that it's a law pertaining to victims of assault, but it does to seem relevant to releasing this guys name?
Sorry Wikipedia is missing some hugely key information there. Grace Tame was a student in high school when a teacher groomed and raped her repeatedly. Because of the law she couldn't say anything, but he could, so he went around publicly talking about how she lured him, it was consensual etc and made himself out to be the poor hard done by victim. After all she went through it entirely doubled down on the harm he did to her to hear about it, so she ,badass that she is, set about to change the law that were not protecting her, they were entirely protecting the perpetrator. Just like they're protecting the perpetrator in this case. She was a kid, he was an adult, and if you want to entertain his argument, she didn't chase him, once she was allowed to speak, she described every incident. It was not consensual in any way. Yet another example the law doesn't protect victims. Grace Tame was Australian of the year in 2021, is my absolute hero, and even more so for the fact she keeps speaking up, so much so Anthony Albanese recently called her difficult.
Oh please. We both know exactly what happened when Albo "called her difficult" - it was part of a media event where he was asked to describe people with one word - intended to produce controversy exactly like this.
That's not what happened though, within a few days of him being found guilty, being found to actually be a perpetrator, the suppression order was lifted.
How do you think the law should have worked in this case ?
Grace Tames example was an example of how the law that's supposed to protect victims, actually protects predators. Wait, whose side are you on?
I'm not on anyone's "side", and certainly not defending the actions of a rapist.
How do you think the law should have worked in this case ?