Chris Spyrou
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12,818 appearances
108 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard yesterday
Chris Spyrou’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 108 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 30.
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I am Chris Speiru.
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Thank you so much for listening to this episode of the briefing and I will catch you next time.
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A listen up production.
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Hey, a heads up before we get into this deep dive, it does contain discussions of child abuse, sexual assault, and rape.
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If that's not for you, we totally get it.
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We'll catch you on the next one.
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Hey it's Chris Brewer with you and welcome to this Sunday episode of the briefing.
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In case you missed it this week, the Victorian government announced a suite of new laws with victim survivors right at the heart of them.
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The changes are looking to make coercive control a standalone criminal offence, strengthen family violence intervention orders so victim survivors don't have to keep going back to court, rein in suppression orders so convicted rapers can't hide behind them, and take good character references off the table at sentencing.
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Now, that last one.
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Good character references is something we've been covering for a while here on the podcast.
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We last dug into it back in August with award-winning activist and survivor Harrison James, and that was after the New South Wales government passed its own laws to scrap them.
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I sat down with Harrison at the time, and here's that deep dive for you now.
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Australia's criminal legal system is built on a fundamental idea that you are innocent until proven guilty.
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That means when someone is accused of a crime, it's the prosecution's job to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.
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And they typically use evidence like DNA, CCTV, eyewitness accounts, expert testimony, and so on to do that.
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If the accused is found guilty by either a judge or jury, the case moves to sentencing.
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That's always the job of a judge, and they'll look at the maximum penalty for the crime and work out where this particular offender sits on that scale before deciding whether they should, for example, pay a fine, complete community service, or spend time behind bars.
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What pushes a sentence higher tends to be the use of violence, premeditation, and offending against children.
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What can bring it down is things like pleading guilty early.
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