Improving the Justice System Response to Sexual Offences: Report (html)
Appendix B:
Consultations
The Commission conducted consultations with the individuals and organisations listed below.
1 ACT Restorative Justice Unit and restorative justice academics
2 Centre for Innovative Justice, RMIT University
3 Family Violence Restorative Justice Service, Department of Justice and Community Safety
4 Judicial College of Victoria
5 Associate Professors Anastasia Powell, RMIT University, and Asher Flynn, Monash University
6 Dr Emma Henderson, La Trobe University and
Dr Kirsty Duncanson, La Trobe University
7 Associate Professor Nicola Henry, RMIT University
8 Family Violence Reform Implementation Monitor
9 Office of the eSafety Commissioner
10 Professor Jane Goodman-Delahunty, University of Newcastle
11 A group of family violence and sexual assault practitioners focusing on disability inclusion
12 Project Restore
13 Intermediary Pilot Program, Department of Justice and Community Safety
14 Sexual Assault Services Victoria (formerly CASA Forum)
15 Child Witness Service
16 Senior sexual assault worker, South Eastern Centre against Sexual Assault (SECASA)
17 Roundtable consultation focused on the experience of women with disability
18 Rodney Vlais, Consultant
19 Dr Frank Lambrick, University of Melbourne
20 Members of Barwon South West Regional Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee and Barwon South West Dhelk Dja Action Group
21 Office of Public Prosecutions – Solicitors
22 First roundtable on the experience of LGBTIQA+ people (Thorne Harbour Health, Switchboard, Rainbow Health Vic)
23 Sexual Assault Services Victoria Specialist Children’s Services
24 County Court of Victoria
25 CASA senior counsellor/advocates
26 Greg Byrne PSM, Legal Policy Consultant, Greg Byrne Law
27 Juries Commissioner
28 Office of Public Prosecutions – Victims and Witness Assistance Service
29 Safe Pathways to Healing Working Group (North Metropolitan Aboriginal Sexual Assault Prevention and Healing Advisory Group)
30 Djirra
31 Geraldine, Deputy Chairperson of the Victim Survivors’ Advisory Council
32 Anonymous member, Victim Survivors’ Advisory Council (VSAC)
33 Rebecca, a member of the Victim Survivors’ Advisory Council
34 Project Respect Women’s Advisory Group
35 A victim survivor of sexual assault
36 Criminal Bar Association
37 New Zealand District Court judges with experience on the sexual violence
court pilot
38 Australian Association for Restorative Justice
39 VACRO (Victorian Association for the
Care and Resettlement of Offenders) and JSS (Jesuit Social Services)
40 Roundtable consultation with Transgender Victoria,
Bisexual Alliance and Drummond Street Services
41 Individual views of Honourable Justice Chris Maxwell AC and Judicial Registrar Tim Freeman
42 Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine
43 Confidential
44 Red Cross Support for Trafficked Persons Program
45 Sex Work Law Reform Victoria
46 Safer Families Research Centre and Monash Social Inclusion Centre
47 Refugee Health Network and Refugee Health Program
48 Star Health and Project Respect
49 Victoria Legal Aid
50 End Rape on Campus
51 Associate Professor Debbie Ollis and Professor Amanda Keddie, Deakin University
52 Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (VALS)
53 Elizabeth Morgan House and a victim survivor of sexual assault
54 Lucille Kent, a victim survivor of sexual assault
55 Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission (VEOHRC)
56 Cecilia, a victim survivor of sexual assault
57 Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
58 Victims of Crime Consultative Committee (VOCCC) representatives
59 Ashleigh Rae, Nicole Lee, Penny
60 Flat Out
61 Children’s Court of Victoria
62 Mark, a person who has experienced sexual harm
63 A victim survivor of sexual assault, name withheld
64 Marie (a pseudonym), the mother of a child who was a victim of image-based abuse
65 Commission for Children and Young People (CCYP)
66 Consultation focused on people who have a lived experience of states of mental and emotional distress commonly labelled as ‘mental health challenges’, and are victims/survivors of sexual assault
67 Loddon Mallee Regional Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee
68 Youthlaw
69 Deborah, a victim survivor of sexual assault
70 Victoria Police (No 1)
71 Magistrates’ Court of Victoria (No 1)
72 Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC)
73 Family Safety Victoria (No 1)
74 Magistrate David Fanning, Neighbourhood Justice Centre (NJC)
75 Family Safety Victoria (No 2)
76 YACVic and YACVic Young People
77 Witness J
78 Roundtable on reporting (Victoria Police, Sexual Assault Services Victoria and some centres against sexual assault; Office of Public Prosecutions; Victoria Legal Aid; Criminal Bar Association)
79 Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People and Manager, Koori Advisory and Engagement
80 Victoria Police (No 2)
81 Danielle, a victim survivor
82 Katherine Dowson, South Eastern Centre Against Sexual Assault
83 VEOHRC (No 2)
84 Aboriginal Justice Caucus
85 Roundtable on the experience of children and young people (centres against sexual assault; Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency; Commission for Children and Young People; Family Safety Victoria; Child Witness Service; Youth Support and Advocacy Service; Department of Families, Fairness and Housing; Youthlaw; Victim Services, Support and Reform, Department of Justice and Community Safety; Professor Martine Powell, Griffith University; Fyona Livingstone Clark, Barrister and PhD candidate)
86 Magistrates’ Court of Victoria (No 2)
87 County Court of Victoria (No 2)
88 Victims of Crime Commissioner
89 Sexual Assault Services Victoria (No 2)
90 Criminal Bar Association (No 2)
91 Victoria Police (No 3)
92 Dr Patrick Tidmarsh
93 Victoria Police (No 4)
94 Office of Public Prosecutions (No 2)
95 Victoria Legal Aid (No 2)
96 Children’s Court of Victoria (No 2)
97 Family Safety Victoria (No 3)
98 Care Leavers Australasia Network (CLAN)
99 Alison, the mother of a rape survivor