Thank you, Chair.
It was off topic but that's nice news anyway.
We're talking again about Justice Camp, and I just want to make sure that everybody heard the testimony we had from the Women's Centre for Social Justice, which does Courtwatch monitoring.
The witness said that comments and attitudes such as the ones made by Justice Robin Camp are:
...far more pervasive and form part of the everyday misogyny in the courtrooms across the country.... No one is shining a spotlight on them, thus enabling them to continue treating victims in ways that skew the outcomes in favour of the offender with no regard for the victim.
I just want to flag, even though we're talking about Federal Court judges here, that when something goes sideways it has an inhibiting effect, whether it's on the police, the prosecutors, or certainly the victims coming forward. I'm glad we're talking about this all together, and we want to show some leadership.
I just want to get a clarification. On page 2 of your submission that you gave us this morning, question 2, you reference the design of a curriculum content. The second-last sentence says it's “designed to be responsive to the needs of the judiciary in consultation with judges, academics and the community” and that the courses are “continually reviewed and renewed”.
I want to know by whom. Who is the “community” in that context, and in the review and renewing, where's the community insert?