Nina Funnell

including by their own family members on memorial pages and so on.

So when I got that news and sidebar, I'd also just found out I was pregnant.

Information overload.

I just, my heart sank and I knew that this was going to be a really different fight in Victoria because Tasmania and the Northern Territory are very small jurisdictions population-wise.

And these laws had been on the books forever in Tasmania and the NT.

No one was particularly attached to them or wanted to defend them.

Whereas in Victoria...

the Attorney General, Jill Hennessy, at the time, had actually just passed and introduced this gag law, which meant that she was going and her government was going to defend it as a good thing.

But why did they think it is a good thing?

We now think that what they did was an error in drafting the legislation, which was so sloppy and so embarrassing for them that they had to double down and defend it.

But

The other thing that was really different in Victoria, Victoria has a very, very large population of victim survivors who have already been very public and active at that time.

So if we think about things like the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, a whole lot of survivors in places like Ballarat.

Yeah.

had to do with clergy abuse, had gone public to get that inquiry up in the first place, that Royal Commission up.

It's also just it's a bigger jurisdiction.

It's got a more lively and active feminist community.

There were lots of survivors who had already exercised their right to go public, who had written autobiographies.

Overnight, those autobiographies were in contempt of court because of this new law.

So I knew that when I broke that story, it was going to go