The arrest on Wednesday of Justin Stein, now charged with the alleged murder of Charlise Mutten who disappeared from a Blue Mountains property last week, throws into stark relief the inconsistent, complex and obscure patchwork of legal restrictions on publishing about criminal investigations and proceedings in NSW and across Australia.
NSW’s laws against identifying children involved in criminal proceedings go further than any other Australian state or territory. The public, rightly, want to know what has gone wrong in society when children go missing. When those children sadly die and criminal proceedings follow, in NSW, the public are denied that opportunity by virtue of these laws.
The commission has sought submissions in relation to a proposal to make these provisions more consistent, including by removing the prohibition on publishing the identity of a deceased child.
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