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Here is selection of recent media coverage:
5 June 2025: All the leaves are brown, the sky is grey and neighbours are warring over trees. The Age
4 November 2024: AI hallucinations caused artificial intelligence to falsely describe these people as criminals – ABC News
29 October 2024: New Victorian laws to spare some victims from traumatic cross-examination before trial – ABC News.
15 October 2024: ‘AI and the law’ an episode of The Law Report on Radio National, including an interview with Kathryn Terry, team leader of the VLRC Artificial Intelligence inquiry.
18 September 2023: ‘Intermediaries help people with cognitive impairments give evidence to police and in court. But many miss out’, ABC News online. The VLRC has recommended that intermediaries should be available in criminal trials to assist the accused, anyone with communication difficulties, and in courts across the state.
31 July 2023: ‘Deaf and blind Australians call out jury service exclusion’ SBS World News
30 May 2023: ‘Overcoming obstacles for deaf & blind jurors’, The Law Report, ABC Radio National. Interview with Emma Cashen, community law reform manager of the VLRC. Read a transcript.
16 May 2023: ‘Remove barriers to jurors with disability’, Vic told, AAP, The Standard
8 April 2023: ‘Deaf Australians and those with disabilities push to end exclusion from juries’ ABC News Online and TV news segment ABC News (Australia)
3 December 2022: ‘Push for ‘victim advocates’ to support alleged rape survivors in court following Bruce Lehrmann trial’, The Guardian
3 October 2022: ‘Accused stalkers would be banned from cross-examining victims under proposed overhaul’, The Herald-Sun
5 September 2022: Shortage of doctors causing victims of violent crime to wait for forensic examinations, 7.30 Report, ABC News
31 August 2022: No room for victim blaming: affirmative consent to become law, The Age/Sydney Morning Herald
27 April 2022: Australia’s justice system for victim-survivors of sexual assault is broken–it’s time to fix it, Elle Australia
6 April 2022: ‘Not taken seriously’: Police handling of stalking criticised in wake of Celeste Manno’s death, The Age
6 April 2022: ‘Victoria police failing to take stalking victims seriously, report finds’, The Guardian
12 November 2021: ‘Affirmative sexual consent laws to be introduced in Victoria’, The Age
12 November 2021: ‘Affirmative consent laws to be introduced in Victoria in ‘incredible step forward’’, AAP, The Guardian
12 November 2021: ‘Affirmative consent laws to be introduced in Victoria for sexual assault cases’, ABC Online
12 November 2021: ‘Victoria to push new consent, stealthing laws as report finds significant flaws in reporting system’, news.com.au
3 August 2021: ‘Brave mum calls for stalking law reform’ A Current Affair, Channel Nine
18 May 2021: ‘Improving the justice system for sexual assault survivors’, The Law Report, ABC Radio National
16 May 2021: ‘Legal dinosaurs the problem, not consent laws, says law reform chair’, The Age
17 January 2021: ‘Law reform needed to allow deaf and blind people on juries’, The Age
21 January 2020: ‘Do Victorian committals deliver fair and fast justice?’ The Law Report, ABC Radio National
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