NSW's First Law Officer AG Mark Speakman, is also Minister for the Prevention of Domestic Violence but is silent about mistreatment of women within the legal profession

by Ganesh Sahathevan

                                                   AG Mark Speakman is considered
                                                   a future premier of NSW

NSW Attorney General Mark Speakman is also Minister for the Prevention of Domestic Violence. One has only to look at his Twitter account to see that violence against women is uppermost in his mind. 


In his latest Tweet he reminds, and exhorts us:
There’ve been 6 #domesticviolence deaths in NSW in 8 weeks. Imagine if these were one punch attacks? Or terrorist attacks? Awful incidents all - but I’m confident we’d be speaking about it more. These lives matter. Today we’re asking, if you hear or see #DV call

@nswpolice now.

He is a great believer in the power of investigative journalism:

Mark Speakman

@MarkSpeakman

Great loss for journalism:

@joanne2mccarthy

at

@newcastleherald

played no small part in exposing hideous child sexual abuse in organisations where kids should have been safe, which led to NSW Special Commission + indeed the Child Abuse Royal Commission

It's goodbye from me

After 40 years in journalism, Joanne McCarthy is leaving the newsroom

It is therefore incomprehensible that Speakman, being First Law Officer NSW, has had nothing to say about the Dyson Heydon investigation by Kate McClymont and Jacqueline Maley. He should have in fact, given the above, ordered an immediate inquiry into sexual harassment by NSW judicial officers.As reported on this blog, instances of sexual harassment are also instances of threatening anfdintimidating behaviour, which is much easier to prove.

TO BE READ WITH 

Dyson Heydon: Why did CJ Bathurst, AG Speakman not treat sexual harassment complaints as instances of threatening and intimidating behaviour, which is far easier to prove, and can lead to judicial officers involved being disbarred, removed, otherwise penalised