We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July,

and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already.

Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show.

Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests,

our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bizina in

Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly.

We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is recorded.

We pay our respects to their elders, past and present, and to Aboriginal elders emerging.

The following podcast contains accounts of sexual assault.

Listener discretion is advised.

Without Nina and Grace doing what they've done,

the fight would have taken longer to get to the point where we don't have to go to court and pay money to be able to use our identities.

To talk about rape or sexual assault. That's Janelle O'Connor, who was the first person in the state of Tasmania to exercise her

right to be named as a rape survivor on the 24th of April 2020.

Up until that point for Janelle to have told her own story about the night she was

sexually assaulted in 1993 using her own name

would have been illegal even though two men were convicted of raping her.

The law has finally been amended in Tasmania as a result of the Let Her Speak campaign, spearheaded by child sexual abuse survivor Grace Tame

and journalist and anti-sexual assault advocate Nina Fennel.

This is Australian True Crime with Michelle Laurie and Emily Webb.

Nina and Janelle joined us in the studio so that Janelle could exercise her right to tell her story.

It's a very graphic account of a brutal sexual assault. So please be warned that it's not for

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