This is Australian True Crime with Michelle Lorry, and today we're reissuing episode 265 from 2022.

With very good reason.

Yesterday, the Albanese government introduced legislation known as the Survivor's Law.

It's aimed at preventing convicted child sex abusers from using

superannuation to shield assets from unpaid court-ordered compensation. If passed, the reforms

would allow victim survivors to seek access to certain additional supercontributions from their

offenders and would ensure those debts can still be pursued even if an offender declares

bankruptcy. In this conversation, Andrew Carpenter and Adam Washbourne join us to explain why

advocates have long called for these changes and what meaningful reform could mean for survivors

seeking justice and financial support to rebuild their lives.

This is Australian true crime.

We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is created,

the Wurundri Woi Wurang people of the Kulin Nation.

And a warning, this episode of the podcast contains graphic descriptions of violence. So I've been doing survivor victim work for around 10 years now, and it was actually my

mum of all people.

She used to work in superannuation, and she came home one day and said, oh, did you know that

the liberal government is trying to pass

legislation which enables victims of crime to go after the super of sexual offenders?

And I had no idea.

So I went on, looked at all the consultation papers and thought, oh, you know, that's an

absolute no-brainer.

Like it's something that will save the taxpayers' money and will punish pedophiles further.

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