Parliament has unanimously passed the Victims of Sexual Violence Bill, which stops courts from granting permanent name suppression to adults convicted of sexual offences unless the victim consents.
The legislation also bans questioning children under 12 about consent in sexual abuse cases and ensures automatic name suppression for all victims of sexual crimes, including image-based offences.
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith and Police Minister Mark Mitchell hailed the changes as long overdue, stating they refocus the justice system on victim needs and accountability for offenders.
While the legal profession raised concerns about limiting judicial discretion, all parties in the House supported the bill, though no Te Pāti Māori MPs were present for the vote.
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This is actually quite dangerous when politicians are not only defining laws but pre-define legal outcomes, too. In Australia, for example, they are in some cases setting minimum 5 year sentences for so called anti Semitic comments, ignoring individual circumstance and circumventing the role, of the judiciary. Classic road to hell or in this case tyranny, appearing to be paved with good intentions.
The key problem here is by exposing the name of the perpetrator, you may also expose the victim, to those who know them, in the wider community. As for the victim deciding, they may be in no fit state to do so. This is partly why we have courts and a judiciary.
Global is Right… Antisemitism in Australia is a Reality, with only 120,000 who self identify as Ashkenazim, out of 28x Million People, NZ, only about 9x Thousand Zionist, out of 5.5x Million People. Yet the NZ Justice Minister is one? Their Sanhedrin 54b says it all. Anti semtism wasn’t a thing until, Trotsky, Lenin and Stalin made it so, and we know what they did with that Fake Term ie What is SHEM? https://dn720002.ca.archive.org/0/items/banjo-billy/G_d%201%20-%20SumerianSwindle.pdf ps, “To Know, is to Understand.”
Noting false complaints are practically never penalised. Please could we have a law that addresses that very common scenario.
They are victims too.
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Contents:
00:00 Event commences
03:00 Welcome – Peter Deakin KC
06:35 #MeToo Attack – Vanessa Scammell
37:20 Men Under Siege – Bettina Arndt
1:06:30 Domestic Violence Orders Violate Human Rights – Professor Augusto Zimmermann
2:03:30 My Son Was Found Not Guilty – Dr Debbie Garratt
2:31:30 Trial By Media – Damian Coory
3:09:10 Punished for False Allegations – Ian Jones
4:55:10 Male Victims of Coercive Control
5:03:00 False Rape Allegations Aren’t So Rare – Tom Nankervell
5:19:45 Faking the Stats
5:55:30 ASF Panel Discussion
6:27:30 Fathers4Justice – Nadine Taylor
6:52:00 Call to Action Panel