Victorian Attorney-General Sonya Kilkenny is examining a NSW government push to ban the controversial references following pleas from child sexual abuse survivors who say the mechanism is ...

New South Wales is set to make legal history as the first state in Australia to abolish the use of 'good character' references in criminal sentencing. The Minns government will introduce landmark ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New South Wales is set to become the first jurisdiction in the country to end the use of good character references in the ...

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In a win for “Your Reference Ain’t Relevant” campaigners, the government will introduce new laws on Wednesday to scrap the “good character” provision for all offences. The good character of an ...

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The legislation means rapists and pedophiles will no longer be able to submit their history of “prior good character” in an effort to have their jail sentences reduced. In December last year, the ACT ...