The Australian Women's Weekly

Open mic WITH Adam Spencer

When the #MeToo hashtag went viral in October 2017, it never even occurred to me that there would be jurisdictions where it would be a criminal offence for a woman to publicly identify herself as a survivor of sexual assault. I certainly didn’t expect that two of those jurisdictions would be in Australia.Yet it was around this same time that I was contacted by a brave young woman from Tasmania who wanted to

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