The Advertiser this week launched its “second annual” database of child sexual offenders, promising a regularly updated chart that “includes the names, ages, suburbs, offences and sentences of convicted offenders, provided all of that information is in the public arena and not suppressed”, in response to “mounting” support “for a national and publicly accessible sexual offenders register”.
The campaign is backed by actor and abuse survivor Madeleine West, who told the paper that some of her abuser’s crimes predated her own experience and some were in other jurisdictions.
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