In the wake of movements such as #MeToo, greater scrutiny has been brought to bear on the everyday nature of sexual violence. This has manifested in a global phenomenon of survivors speaking out publicly across a diverse range of platforms. This article explores one such Australian case that went on to become highly publicised against the backdrop of #MeToo. In May 2013, an 18-year-old woman named Saxon Mullins met 21-year-old Luke Lazarus on the dancefloor of a nightclub in the inner Sydney suburb of Kings Cross. Lazarus claimed he was the part-owner of the club and offered to take her to a VIP area. Instead, he led her to a dark alley and had sexual intercourse with her. Mullins has always described this as non-consensual. In 2018, after a complex legal process comprising two trials, both of which were overturned in response to successful appeals, the New South Wales Court of Appeal ordered against a third trial on the basis that it would be oppressive and unfair to Lazarus. In response, following widespread media interest in the case, Mullins spoke out publicly in 2018 on a national current affairs program, Four Corners. While the sidelining of victims from formal criminal justice processes has been widely documented, we explore how this can also occur in media coverage accompanying a case. Identifying a shift in the status afforded to the victim in the wake of her speaking out publicly, we argue that this raises broad questions about the impact of victim anonymity provisions and highlights how a survivor’s capacity to speak out in the wake of institutional failures is highly contingent. A tension between the tangible value of anonymity, set against the perverse effect of once again silencing victims, is a dilemma that remains unresolved.

在诸如#MeToo之类的运动之后，对性暴力的日常性质进行了更为严格的审查。这体现在幸存者在各种平台上公开发表言论的全球现象中。本文探讨了一个这样的澳大利亚案例，该案例在#MeToo的背景下得到了高度宣传。2013年5月，一名名叫萨克森·穆林斯（Saxon Mullins）的18岁妇女在悉尼内城区金斯克罗斯（Kings Cross）一家夜总会的舞池里遇见了21岁的卢克·拉撒路（Luke Lazarus）。拉撒路声称自己是俱乐部的部分拥有者，并提出带她去贵宾区。相反，他带她到了一条黑暗的小巷，与她发生了性关系。Mullins一直将其描述为非共识。2018年，在经过两次审判的复杂法律程序之后，新南威尔士州上诉法院均对这两项请求均作出了回应，但均被推翻。新南威尔士州上诉法院下令对拉撒路施加压迫性和不公正性，反对进行第三次审判。作为回应，在媒体广泛关注此案之后，穆林斯（Mullins）在2018年就一项国家时事节目公开发表了讲话，四个角。尽管已广泛记录了正式刑事司法程序中受害人的副业，但我们探索了在伴随案件的媒体报道中也如何发生这种情况。我们指出，在受害者公开发表言论后，受害者的地位有所变化，我们认为这引起了对受害者匿名规定的影响的广泛质疑，并着重指出了幸存者在机构失败后的话语表达能力有多么高队伍。匿名性的有形价值与再次使受害者沉默的有害影响之间的紧张关系是一个尚未解决的难题。