Nina Funnell

And in the end, I interviewed 14 survivors from around the whole country who had gone public to ask them why.

you know why why was that important for them and because i'd been doing all this work with university survivors a number of those 14 were themselves university from universities so the campaign actually really um was born out of those series of events and when we launched on day one

I'd partnered with 60 Minutes.

We did it as this big sort of news.com.au slash 60 Minutes launch to say there is this absurd law in Tasmania.

Here are all these survivors around the country calling out Tasmania.

And so that makes it national.

And it also means that you've got faces.

You've got other survivors.

And then it becomes a survivor-led campaign.

And I decided to also include my own name and story in that as well as a survivor to say, you know, at 23, telling my own story had actually been really important for me because it was how I reclaimed some of my agency in a moment when I felt very powerless.

And so I sort of reinserted myself as both a journalist and victim survivor.

And obviously we got Grace's court order for her and she was able to tell her story.

But I knew that once we told her story with her face,

I can't do that.

Well, no, we actually decided we should do that.

Really?

Yeah.

No, I decided we should do it.

So I decided to set up a GoFundMe and to partner with two organisations, End Rape on Campus Australia, because this was –

This was born out of university student activism and also Mark Lawyers, who are a brilliant law firm here in Sydney.