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Speaker 1: We have this morning two major changes potentially to name

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Speaker 1: suppression laws. The first would waive the right to permanent

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Speaker 1: name suppression for convicted adult defenders. Second would ensure all

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Speaker 1: survivors of sexual crimes are granted automatic suppression. Now, the

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Speaker 1: Justice Minicin's in charge of this and Paul Goldsmith's with us.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning mate. Are there gaps in the law?

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Speaker 2: Well, look, the primary issue is that you have people

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Speaker 2: who are convicted of sexual crimes rape and have been

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Speaker 2: convicted and they can still get permanent name suppression. And

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Speaker 2: that's a massive issue, particularly for the victims. They can't

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Speaker 2: really talk about what happened to them, they can't warn others.

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Speaker 2: And so we look, you only get permanent name suppression

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Speaker 2: if you're a convicted sex offender, if the victim agrees,

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Speaker 2: and if the victim doesn't agree, we'll tough luck. You're

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Speaker 2: not going to get it, and you should own up

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Speaker 2: for your crimes.

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Speaker 1: When we talk about the views of the victim taken

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Speaker 1: into account, how real versus how sympathetic is that?

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Speaker 2: Well, that's the current law that the that the views

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Speaker 2: of the victim are taken into account, and you know, frankly,

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Speaker 2: sometimes it doesn't get very far, and the person who

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Speaker 2: has been convicted is guilty of these sexual crimes, remains,

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Speaker 2: continues to have their name suppressed forever, and they have huge,

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Speaker 2: long court battles over it. It retraumatizes the victims in that process,

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Speaker 2: and you know, I just a fundamentally don't agree with

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Speaker 2: that because you can't how do you warn other victims?

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Speaker 2: And our focus in government, of course, is to reduce

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Speaker 2: the number of victims of violent and sexual offending. And

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Speaker 2: the best place to start, of course, is to deal

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Speaker 2: with the people who are doing it most often, such

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Speaker 2: as gang members and all those sorts of things. But

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Speaker 2: also when you've been a convicted sex offender, well there's

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Speaker 2: a real risk that you continue and do that elsewhere.

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Speaker 2: And so they've got they've got to own up to

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Speaker 2: their crimes so that the community knows who they're dealing with.

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Speaker 1: You've got the numbers, obviously, So this is a fight

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Speaker 1: to complete. What's the timeline on it.

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Speaker 2: Well, there's a current piece of legislation which had been

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Speaker 2: going through the House, and I'm making an amendment to that.

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Speaker 2: We'll introduce that. We'll send it off to a slick

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Speaker 2: muddy for a short period and then pass it pretty quickly.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate your time. Paul Goldsmith, the Justice Minister

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