Harrison James
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1,537 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 8 Jul
Harrison James’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think people often mistake healing as you've stopped struggling, and that's just not the case.
Thanks for having me.
Yeah, for sure.
So after experiencing sexual abuse as a child from the ages of 13 to 16 and heading to a mental health facility, that's sort of where things started to change for me.
And I saw Grace Tame become Australian of the Year.
And that sort of instilled this confidence in me to pursue advocacy.
And I had this sort of niggling, like this chip on my shoulder about the
idea of good character references being used as a mitigating factor in sentencing and that sort of propelled me to diving into the world of advocacy and it was complex and I think along the entire journey it was
Just a constant learning experience.
It still is to this day, even after securing legislative wins across the country, it still is a learning experience.
And yeah, it's just been it, but it has been rewarding and healing.
Like my perpetrator, my stepmother didn't go to court, so I didn't garner justice in the traditional sort of sense.
But to be able to campaign and advocate and help other people along the way, that has been my form of justice.
And it's been really beautiful to see that come to fruition.
Yeah.
So we've passed the law in four jurisdictions.
So New South Wales, the ACT, Victoria has made a commitment to introduce legislation this year and Tasmania has done the same.
So four out of the eight jurisdictions of Australia.
Yeah, it was a surge of, I think, multiple emotions at one thing.
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