Nina Funnell

on campus at the time and had been running into her daughter's offender.

So you can imagine, so that was impacting her right to access education.

So Grace also said that she would like to be quoted in the article.

And so, you know, I wrote up this piece and as with every article, we run it past our legal department first before we publish it.

And my lawyer, Gina McWilliams came back and she said, the piece is good to go, but you can't name Grace.

And I was like, well,

why the offender's been convicted.

He's gone to jail.

There's no defamation.

There's no subjudice or contempt issues, you know, the normal stuff we come up against.

And she said, well, there's a thing called Section 194K of the Evidence Act in Tasmania, which prohibits survivors from being identified unless they go to court and get a court order.

And I remember going, well, can we do that?

Can we get her a court order if she wants to be named?

And Gina was like, look, if she wants to be named that badly, we can do it.

But, you know, it's a bit of work.

And I went away and I thought about it and I was like, so wait, every survivor in that state who wants to tell their story has to go to court or has to get the media organisation to go to court first before they can tell their story.

That doesn't seem right.

And Grace was 22 at the time and I'd gone public when I was 23.

And it suddenly occurred to me that had my assault happened in Hobart instead of Sydney, I wouldn't have been able to tell my story.

I would have had to, or I would have at least had to go to court, get a court order.