Nina Funnell

And Mark Lawyers said that they would do all the legal work pro bono.

And so the GoFundMe would cover the costs of, so it costs about, I think it was about $2,000 per application or something to like pay for some of the court fees and so on.

We ended up doing it over 20 times, getting these court orders.

And every time we'd get a court order, I would then tell the story of the victim survivor and

um who wanted to go public and now it turned out it wasn't just Tasmania that had this that law it was also the northern territory so I was doing I was running the let her speak campaign in both Tasmania and the NT the idea being that we would go to court get these court orders so that survivors could tell their story I would then do their story and as part of that story I would once again highlight the fact that oh by the way we had to go to court to do this and

that's not sustainable.

We need legal change.

And so we were pressuring the, so the campaign was pressuring the attorney generals in both jurisdictions to say, change the legislation.

And in, it was April 2020 that the Tasmanian law changed.

And in July 2020 that the Northern Territory law changed.

So survivors in those two jurisdictions now are able to, um,

to tell their stories under their own names without having to go to court.

And I do want to shout out to the other survivors because obviously Grace was named Australian of the Year for her bravery in telling her story as an adult survivor of child sexual abuse.

But there were multiple other survivors in the campaign who did the same thing of going to court, getting a court order.

So like Tamika, Janelle, Lavinia in particular, like up in the NT, Sandra, they all did an amazing job.

And I want to give credit to all of the survivors in the campaign that did that.

Yeah, I mean, like the worst part was the week that I got notification that the Tasmanian law was going to change, I also got notification that Victoria had just introduced a gag law, the exact gag law that we'd just gotten changed in Tasmania and

And it went one step further.

Not only were victim survivors in Victoria now required to go to court and get court permission to tell their stories, but any women or anyone, sorry, I should say, who had been the victim of sexual assault and murder or anyone who was now a deceased victim of sexual assault could no longer be named.

So people like Jill Maher, Eurydice Dixon, Aya Masawa, overnight it became illegal to publish their names because