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.

We all just feel so disempowered and so silenced

and it's a really horrible thing to be silenced,

especially when we were not silenced before. This is a Australian True Crime with Michelle Laurie and Emily Webb.

We've received a lot of messages in the last couple of days from listeners confused and concerned about reports that

Victorian survivors of sexual assault are now prevented from telling their own

stories by a new piece of legislation. This comes just months after old laws gagging survivors

were scrapped in Tasmania and the Northern Territory.

In May we featured a Tasmanian woman called Janelle O'Connor on Australian True Crime, who told her story under her own name for the first time.

And we've reissued that episode in case you missed it as a reminder of why these laws are so damaging to survivors.

Janelle was introduced to us by journalist Nina Fennell, who's a tireless advocate for the rights of survivors of

sexual abuse. She's the creator of the Let Her Speak campaign which was

designed to highlight the old laws still on the books in some Australian states. which was on News.com. dot-A-U last week.

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