Repost: #LetHerSpeak Janelle O’Connor’s sexual assault. WARNING – VIOLENT CONTENT - #159

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This episode is a repost of episode #159, originally published on May 21st 2020.

Janelle O’Connor 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 then it was illegal for rape survivors to self-identify. Janelle and NinaFunnel, the founder of the #LetHerSpeak campaign join us to explain the legal changes, and Janelle tells us her story.

WARNING – This is an extremely disturbing story, please exercise discretion.

Show notes for Episode 159:

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0:00.0	We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July,
0:04.3	and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already.
0:07.5	Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show.
0:10.3	Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests,
0:15.2	our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bizina in
0:19.9	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.
0:26.0	We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is recorded.
0:30.0	We pay our respects to their elders, past and present, and to Aboriginal elders emerging.
0:37.0	The following podcast contains accounts of sexual assault.
0:41.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:47.0	Without Nina and Grace doing what they've done,
0:52.0	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.
1:02.0	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
1:20.4	right to be named as a rape survivor on the 24th of April 2020.
1:28.0	Up until that point for Janelle to have told her own story about the night she was
1:32.2	sexually assaulted in 1993 using her own name
1:36.9	would have been illegal even though two men were convicted of raping her.
1:46.1	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
1:52.1	and journalist and anti-sexual assault advocate Nina Fennel.
1:56.0	This is Australian True Crime with Michelle Laurie and Emily Webb.
2:01.0	Nina and Janelle joined us in the studio so that Janelle could exercise her right to tell her story.
2:08.0	It's a very graphic account of a brutal sexual assault. So please be warned that it's not for
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