We are excited to welcome Associate Professor Helen Fraser, Adjunct Associate Professor in Linguistics at the University of New England, Armidale, who will present a seminar on the use of covert recordings as evidence in criminal trials. The ANZAPPL NSW Branch AGM will be held prior to the presentation. 2020 AGM minutes 2020 AGM election notice ANZAPPL NSW 2020 AGM notice and agenda ANZAPPL NSW 2020 AGM Proxy

Tony Buti MLA is the Member for Armadale, a lawyer and legal academic and prolific writer. In his fourth book ‘A Stolen life’, Buti continues his examination of the Trevorrow case, this time with an in-depth examination of the life of Bruce Trevorrow, his fight for recognition and compensation and the processes he lived through to gain a final judgement. State authorities failed to return baby Bruce Trevorrow to his family after he was hospitalised with a short illness. He did not see his biological family for 10 years after he was placed in a non-indigenous household. He lost his attachment to his family and indigenous culture. He was never able to properly connect with his brothers and sisters. Tony introduces the reader to the work of Dr John Bowlby whose seminal report in the 1950s changed the way we view the relationship of parent and child. Bowlby’s work on attachment has been influential in many fields and in Trevorrow's case, it provides the template for understanding the dislocation suffered by Trevorrow throughout his life. The understanding of attachment theory was an important element in the ultimate discussion of damages for Trevorrow as the plaintiff. In this seminar Tony will be discussing the key details of the book, how it came towritten and his interest in the Trevorrow case. Price Students (full-time, unsalaried only) - $20 ANZAPPL Members $25 Non-members $35 A drink on arrival and light canapes will be provided prior to the presentation. Please RSVP by Monday 17 February. Click here to RSVP.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! This year the ANZAPPL WA committee have decided to give back to the people who have supported us through their membership in 2019. Join us for a Christmas sundowner in a relaxed environment, have a few drinks and nibbles on us, and mingle with those people that you see at our seminars but never have a chance to talk to! Price Members of ANZAPPL (WA) – FREE Non-members – $45

There has been a global increase in lone actor attacks in recent years, and Australia and New Zealand have not been spared. This presentation will describe the current national security environment and the limitations of traditional policing responses. It will focus on the concept of lone actor grievance-fuelled violence, including lone actor terrorism. The presentation will highlight the non-causal role of mental illness and related vulnerabilities in lone actor terrorists, apolitical mass murderers and fixated persons, the roles and responsibilities of mental health practitioners in mitigating the threat posed, and the increasing need for multi-agency cooperation to achieve the best outcome for these individuals and the wider community. Speaker Professor Michele Pathé is a forensic psychiatrist at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health (Forensicare), Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at Swinburne University of Technology and Clinical Lead at the Victorian Fixated Threat Assessment Centre (VFTAC). Professor Pathé was a member of the multi-national Fixated Research Group commissioned by the British Home Office to investigate the threat posed to the British Royal Family and politicians by fixated persons. This project culminated in the establishment of the world’s first FTAC in the UK in 2006, a joint police-mental health intelligence agency for assessing and managing fixated persons. Professor Pathé has since played a key role in setting up Australia’s first FTAC in Queensland (QFTAC) in 2013 and its later expansion to address lone actor grievance-fuelled violence more broadly. This received an Australian Crime and Violence Prevention National Gold Award in 2017. Prof Pathé consulted to the AFP in the establishment of its Fixated Threat Assessment model for high office holders in Canberra, and provided consultation and training to fixated threat capabilities in other Australian jurisdictions and New Zealand. She has consulted widely to health, law enforcement and security personnel in relation to stalking, public figure fixation, lone actor terrorism and other forms of grievance-fuelled violence. She has co-authored risk assessment tools, three books and 100 journal articles and book chapters. In 2018 she received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the American Association of Threat Assessment Professionals.

Violence against an intimate partner is common and can have a wide range of outcomes. In this seminar leading experts will share their knowledge concerning how we might identify and respond to the highest-risk offenders. Click here to download a flyer [PDF]. 1630-1640: Welcome, Introduction and Context Professor Mark Kebbell, School of Applied Psychology and Griffith Institute of Criminology, Griffith University. 1640-1700: Intimate partner violence fundamentals – how the law is structured, and how it is applied. Joseph Briggs, Queensland Legal Aid View PowerPoint [PDF] 1700-1720 :Learning from Tragedy: Findings from The Queensland Domestic and Family Death Review Board. Associate Professor Kathleen Baird, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University Deputy Chair, Queensland Domestic and Family Death Review and Homicide Review Board. View PowerPoint [PDF] 1720-1750: Assessing intimate partner violence risk: challenges and possible solutions. Associate Professor Troy McEwan, Swinbourne University and Forensicare. View PowerPoint [PDF] 1750-1800: Closing remarks Speakers Professor Mark Kebbell is Queensland President of ANZAPPL and Professor of Forensic Psychology at the School of Applied Psychology Griffith University and Griffith Criminology Institute. His expertise and research are in the area of investigative psychology particularly with regards the investigation and prosecution of serious crime. Mark’s previous work has included writing the guidelines for police officers in England and Wales (with Wagstaff) for assessing witness evidence and developing risk assessment methods for policing. Joseph Briggs was admitted as a barrister in 1992 and, since 1998, has been a member of the Public Defenders’ Chambers of Legal Aid Queensland in Brisbane. Joe has considerable experience in trial courts in diverse locations including the aboriginal communities in the Gulf and Mt Isa regions on circuit. He has conducted a number of appeals in the Court of Appeal, and has appeared in a number of Commissions of Inquiry including the Indefinite detention of people with cognitive and psychiatric impairment in Australia in 2016. For the many years, Joe has also practised in the Queensland Mental Health Court and has conducted over 1800 matters including numerous murders and attempted murders, and has also represented several persons who have appealed from decisions of the Mental Health Court. Joe has experience in the Mental Health Review Tribunal and is a member of the Queensland Law Society (QLS) Health and Disability Committee and helped established the QLS Ethics Sub-Committee. Associate Professor Kathleen Baird holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor with the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Griffith University and Director of Midwifery and Nursing Education, Women Newborn and Children’s Services at Gold Coast University Hospital. Dr Baird has been a midwife since 1996 and has clinical experience in a variety of positions. In her academic career, which stretches over two continents, Dr Baird work has a strong focus on maternity care, the health response to domestic and family violence and women’s health. Her current appointments include a member of Queensland Domestic and Family Violence Implementation Council and Deputy Chair of the Queensland Domestic and Family Death and Homicide Review Board. Dr Baird is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow with the University of the West of England, Bristol. Associate Professor Troy McEwan is National President of ANZAPPL and a senior clinical and forensic psychologist at Forensicare in Melbourne, and a researcher with a particular interest in the effective assessment, treatment and management of complex criminal behaviours such as stalking, family and intimate partner violence, sexual offending, and firesetting. In addition to more than 50 peer-reviewed publications, she has co-authored and validated five risk assessment instruments for stalking and family violence, which are used by police, mental health and related agencies in Australia and around the world.

After the Lindt café siege in Sydney in 2014, the NSW Coroner concluded that although he did not have a mental illness, the Iranian-born gunman Man Haron Monis had become ‘radicalised’ and committed a ‘terrorist act.’ In his findings, the NSW Coroner was highly critical of the psychiatrist who advised and supported the police negotiators throughout the siege. However, most of the assumptions made by the NSW Coroner can be questioned and his criticism of the psychiatrist was misplaced and ill-informed and overstated the psychiatrist’s influence on the negotiation strategy adopted by the police. The Coroner’s disparagement of the psychiatrist who considered all the information known about Monis and developed a sophisticated formulation may have the unintended consequence that psychiatrists may be reluctant to assist police and security agencies in hostage-sieges or other critical incidents. Dr Russ Scott, Forensic Psychiatrist to the Prison Mental Health Service, Queensland. Dr Scott has a degree in Medicine and Surgery (University of Queensland) and a Masters of Law (Queensland University of Technology). He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and was the first psychiatrist to obtain accreditation as a forensic psychiatrist in Australia and New Zealand. Dr Scott was the consultant to the acute female inpatient unit of Thomas Embling Hospital in Victoria before he became the consultant to the acute male inpatient unit at High Security Inpatient Services at The Park – Centre for Mental Health, Wolston Park, Brisbane. Between 2008 – 2011, Dr Scott was the medical issues section editor of the Journal of Law and Medicine and continues to be a regular contributor to the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Australasian Psychiatry and Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. Dr Scott is currently a consultant psychiatrist to the Prison Mental Health Service, Queensland Health and honorary secretary of the Queensland Branch of ANZAPPL. View PowerPoint [PDF] View Paper [PDF]

The Uluru Statement from the Heart was a national Indigenous consensus position on Indigenous constitutional recognition. The statement called for the establishment of a ‘First Nations Voice’ in the Australian Constitution and the establishment of a ‘Makarrata Commission’ to supervise a process of agreement-making and truth-telling between governments and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Colleen Hayward Professor Colleen Hayward is a senior Noongar woman with extensive family links throughout the south-west of WA. For more than 30 years, Colleen has provided significant input to policies and programs on a wide range of issues, reflecting the needs of minority groups at community, state and national levels. She has an extensive background in a range of areas including health, education, training, employment, housing, child protection and law & justice as well as significant experience in policy and management. She has received a number of prestigious awards for her long-standing work for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, the advancement of human rights and anti-racism, education, and equity and social justice. Colleen is a Western Australian Ambassador for Children and Young People. She currently chairs the Alcohol and Other Drugs Advisory Board for the Mental Health Commission and is a member of the State Government’s Meth Amphetamine Taskforce. She is also a member of the WA Gaming and Wagering Commission and the Board of the Fremantle Football Club. She has recently accepted an invitation of membership of Chief Executive Women (Australia). Price Students (full time, unsalaried only) – $20 ANZAPPL Members – $25 Non-members – $35 A drink on arrival and light canapés will be provided prior to the presentation.

The traditional method used with suspects is to interrogate them using an accusatory style, often from the beginning of the interrogation.  Recent in research in several countries consistently demonstrates that a noteworthy proportion of guilty suspects have already decided to confess before the interview commences, and thus this traditional approach may be ‘seen’ to work for them.  For other suspects new research suggests such an approach may well not be effective.  A different approach was adopted over 25 years ago in England, which is now being adopted elsewhere (e.g. in Australia, Japan, Norway, USA) and has been recommended by a United Nations ‘Special Rapporteur’.  Instead of the seeking of confessions (that may provide very little information), this ‘new’ approach encourages suspects to provide as much relevant information as possible, the contents of which can be verified or challenged.  Research on how best to elicit such information and when best to disclose to suspects information known to the investigators will be described. Speaker Ray Bull is (part-time) Professor of Criminal Investigation at The University of Derby.  In 2014 he became (for three years) President of the European Association of Psychology and Law.  In 2012 he was made the first Honorary Life Member of the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group.  In 2010 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society “for the contribution made to the discipline of psychology” (this honour is restricted to 40 living psychologists).  In 2008 he received from the European Association of Psychology and Law the ‘Award for Life-time Contribution to Psychology and Law’.  In 2005 he received a Commendation from the London Metropolitan Police for “Innovation and professionalism whilst assisting a complex rape investigation”.  He has authored/co-authored a large number of research publications.  He regularly acts as an expert witness and conducts workshops/training on investigative interviewing around the world, including in Australia (e.g. at the Western Australia Police Detective School), Belgium, Brazil (e.g. to parts of the national government), Canada (e.g. at the HQ of the Quebec Province Police), China (e.g. at the Beijing Police Academy and the Zheijang Police University), Cyprus (e.g. at the National Police Academy), Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France (e.g. at an event organized by The Gendarmerie), Germany, Ireland (e.g. at the National Police Training School), Italy, Jamaica (e.g. to the Independent Commission of Investigations), Japan, Kenya, South Korea (e.g. at the National Detective Academy), Malaysia (e.g. at the National Police Academy), Mauritius (at the National Police Academy), Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand (e.g. at various detective training sites), Norway (e.g. at the National Police University), Pakistan (e.g. to terrorism investigators), Poland (e.g. at the National Academy for Border Guards), Portugal, Romania, Russia, Singapore, South Africa (e.g. to the Police Behavioural Science Branch), Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan (at the National Police University), Thailand (to the Royal Thai Police), USA (e.g. to the ‘HIG’ initiative), Zambia.

During his evidence to the current Coroner’s Inquest into deaths at music festivals in New South Wales, Canberra A & E consultant Dr David Caldicott asserted that the “evidence” shows that on-site pill-testing “reduces the amount of drugs consumed by individuals” and “reduces the variety of drugs consumed.” However, a recent review of pill testing in 20 countries was not able to cite any studies from anywhere in the world that demonstrated a decrease in substance use or the variety of substances used at music festivals or any effect on hospital attendances or any positive outcome attributable to any form of pill testing. In April 2018, the first pilot study of ‘front of house’ pill testing (also known as “safety testing”) was conducted in Australia during the Groovin’ The Moo music festival which attracted over 24,000 attendees. Of the 75 attendees who had their pills tested and received the brief motivational interview to discourage them from taking their pills, more than half (58%) said they intended to use the drugs as originally planned, 12% said they would use less drug, 5% said they would not use the tested drug but would use another drug and 7% were undecided. Less than a fifth (18%) said they would not use any illicit drugs and only five (7%) were observed to discard their pills in the amnesty bin provided. There is a concern that formalised pill testing may create the illusion of “safety” and contribute further to the normalisation of substance use at music festivals in Australia. For the affirmative Mark Daglish Current Chairperson, Faculty of Addiction Psychiatry, Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (Queensland Branch) View PowerPoint [PDF] For the negative Russ Scott Forensic Psychiatrist, Prison Mental Health Service Honorary Secretary ANZAPPL (Queensland Branch) View PowerPoint [PDF] View Paper [PDF] Chairperson Jeff Buckley Alcohol and other Drugs Expert and Educator

Some perpetrators of family violence have used cross-examination of their former partners as a method of continuing control.  Most often the perpetrators are male and the women in this context suffer further trauma, not only because of the court process and the uncertain nature of the outcomes but by having to repeat their stories, relive the abuse suffered by themselves and/or their children while being cross examined directly by the perpetrator. This seminar will discuss the legislative changes to the Family Law Amendment (Family Violence and Cross-examination of Parties) Bill 2018 and its overall purpose, especially in terms of preventing personal cross-examination and ensuring the protection of victims of family violence. Ms Wenn will discuss the background to these changes, the impact the changes will have on all parties as well as some of the challenges and difficulties in this highly complex and emotional setting. Tania Wenn Tania Wenn is a Barrister and Solicitor, and Principal of Wenn Law Barristers and Solicitors.  Tania commenced her law degree as a mature age student and was the first person from the inaugural Law degree from Edith Cowan University to be admitted as a certified Practicing Lawyer by the Supreme Court.  She is a passionate advocate in the Family Court system. Price Students (full time, unsalaried only) – $20 ANZAPPL Members – $25 Non-members – $35

The introduction of Intimate Image Abuse legislation was an election commitment of the McGowan Government. In 2018 the office of the Commissioner for Victims of Crime worked with the Attorney General to introduce the legislation around Intimate Image Abuse. The presentation will focus on:   The national framework regarding Intimate Image Abuse; The current research in regards to the extent, prevalence and impact of Intimate Image Abuse; The role of the E-safety Commissioner; and The limitations of the legislation. Kate Kraszlan, Acting Commissioner for Victims Kati Kraszlan is currently the Acting Commissioner for Victims in Western Australia. She commenced in the position in October 2017. The Commissioner advocates to Government for ongoing improvement in victim of crime legislation, policies and services in Western Australia. Priorto this position Kati had an extensive career in the Justice and Community sectors working across various research and policy positions. She has worked in the office of Inspector of Custodial Services and was also responsible for developing the award-winning West Kimberley Regional Prison, the first purpose-built prison for Aboriginal People in Australia. Kati returned to the public sector in 2016 after being employed by BHP Billiton in the area of Community Development. Price Students (full-time, unsalaried only) – $20 ANZAPPL Members – $25 Non-members – $35 Price includes a drink on arrival and light canapés prior to the presentation.

Restriction of personal liberty to choose where to live, and who to associate with, is usually only permitted under criminal law, following legal processes. Mental health legislation also permits restraints on freedom of individuals, subject to legal oversight of the process. Admission into an aged care facility may restrict a person’s liberty, if placed in a locked area which they cannot leave without staff assistance. Laws regulating these procedures should be fair, open to scrutiny, and meet international standards of law and good practice. Informal detention in aged care has received substantial examination overseas and in other states of Australia. In WA, authorities up to now have shown limited interest in the ethical and human rights aspects. The ‘Bournewood’ case in England provoked extensive attention and litigation, but the lessons derived have received little attention in WA. The fact that mental health care and legislation is a State responsibility, while aged care is under Commonwealth government control, creates a gap in ownership of this problem. English reports indicate serious problems with the costly and burdensome legislation adopted there. My thesis concluded with suggested measures which may assist in remedying some of the defects in current law and practice, while avoiding unduly complex and ineffective legislation. Dr Neville Hills I was born in Perth and have worked in forensic and old age psychiatry posts in WA and England. As the last psychiatrist-superintendent of Swanbourne Hospital I was closely involved with its transformation into a range of alternative facilities. Retiring from full-time work in 1999 I was a member of the Mental Health Review Board for five years. At the UWA Law School I completed a PhD in 2017 which examined issues of detention and human rights of older people in mental health and aged care facilities. Price Students (full time, unsalaried only) – $20 ANZAPPL Members – $25 Non-members – $35 A drink on arrival and light canapés will be provided prior to the presentation.