This recommendation came despite coordinated attempts by Labor, Liberal and Shooters Party MPs making politically motivated attacks against the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Ms Sally Dowling SC, culminating in an adverse finding against the DPP. The Greens have urged the Minns Labor Government to reject the adverse finding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The inquiry was cut-short after multiple witnesses refused to give evidence, an issue that continues because the Minns Labor Government has refused to pass draft laws to reinstate the Parliament\u2019s powers to compel attendance at Committee hearings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens MP, Solicitor and spokesperson for Justice Sue Higginson said,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI am dismayed that this Inquiry has strayed from the important matter of identity protections for children during criminal proceedings, focusing primarily on putting a woman on trial for alleged wrongdoing,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA First Nations young person\u2019s identity was disclosed to radio 2GB by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions but, the Director of Public Prosecutions has given sworn testimony she didn\u2019t authorise any disclosure,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDespite this sworn testimony, the majority of Committee members have made extraordinary and unsubstantiated allegations against the Director which have no basis in fact whatsoever,<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Minns Labor Government\u2019s determination to avoid accountability by leaving parliamentary inquiries without teeth is having profound consequences, in this case it has jeopardised public confidence in the justice system,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI was able to move amendments to the recommendations to call on the Minns Labor Government to progress legislative reform to better protect the identities of children during criminal proceedings,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stronger protections for the identity of children and young people during criminal proceedings have been recommended by a parliamentary committee today after a young person’s name was given to radio 2GB by a media officer within the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP). This recommendation came despite coordinated attempts by Labor, Liberal and Shooters … Continue reading “Political attack almost derails greater protections for young people in criminal proceedings”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39932,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39931\/revisions\/39932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}