ROUGH JUSTICE: Ashleigh Rae Cooper (left), Noelle Dickson, Di McDonald and Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party Northern Victoria MP Tania Maxwell at Parliament in Melbourne on Wednesday, where Ashleigh and Di recounted for the media the failures of Victoria’s victim assistance system. Noelle, whose daughter was brutally murdered in 2012, joined Ashleigh and Di in the Legislative Council chamber gallery to hear Ms Maxwell’s speech.
A HEINOUS crime that occurred in Wangaratta in 2015 has been used by local MP Tania Maxwell to help describe the deficiencies within the current Victims of Crime Assistance Act.
In her six part motion to overhaul what Ms Maxwell describes as a "cumbersome" system, she cites the need for simplified victims of crime award categories, responsiveness to victims' individual needs, and specialist child...
