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PRIVATE & PERSONAL & CONFIDENTIAL

URGENT

23 February 202l

Kathi Rsee Aess±ties Against Cristian Fortef

nesy Fehr.y 2 of tis ye wad ave been acute 50"""" Khan.ae will est ·Sa s birthday s she hung her achy""e Adelaide home e: we try Jae 24, 2620. Kate ha been in te,P""", pt g«criminal coarpint against the Commonwealth Attorney-General, Porter, wom Katharine claimed raped ber in January 198.8

Each of ou are already low sore of the aspects of Katharine's story. We have rt.ached te witness statement Katharine prepared foe the NSW Police in February 2620 so that there can be no ambiguity about what Katharine alleged. We have chosen to send it to the three of you to receive this letter as you each re already connected to the story and you represent the three major parties of Australian polities. We have not sent the material more broadly to preserve rights of the Attorney-General. Your respectre connections to Kthine's story re

eneor hong: Katharine knew Sena or Wong from their time at the University of Adelaide. Katharine personally informed Senator Wong during the se ond half of 2020 of the rape detailed in the statement though she did not ask her to act upon this information at that time

Sena!or ianson-lowg. Senator Hansom-Young worked with Louise Milligan for the Four Corners episode that aired on Mordy November 30, 2020

rime Minute Morison The Prime Minister was briefed on aspe ts of this story by the Attorney-General in the lead up to the Four Corners episode and in furthee discus ions after the programme aired

The Four Comers episode from Monday November 30, 2020 initially intended to over much of Katharine's story. Defamation constraints and the conccms of Katharine's family led Four Concerns to drop Katharine's rape from that programme

Katharine was an outstanding young woman - Captain of the Astrain Schools Debating Team, School Captain, Prefect, academically gifted and unanimously viewed as a future le der. Kathrine was selected as a member of the Australian Schoel Debating Team when she was in Year 11 (1987) and again, as Captain, when she wt Year 12(1988). Few people have been sleeted in this team when they were in Yea

As Katharine's statement details, in January of 1988 when she was 16, Katharine % anally and orally raped by Christian Porter, who was also a member of the 19g Australian Schools Debating Team. At the time of the incident, Kathrine was A vi Up until this incident she had led a sheltered and protected existence with very lime romantic or sexual expeneno.

There can be no legal question of consent under the victim. However, even if consent were a lol case given the nature of specific actions victim. The only question of legal subst occur, it was rape, le private d

process whereby Kathrine would formally submit her statement to the NSW Police. It was agreed that the two officers she met with would come to Adelaide to take her statement. The NSW Police officers Katherine and y Walsh met with were DSC Samantha Meredith ( and Scott Beras oni ( . Katharine had been in Sydney at the time to meet with her lawyer Michael Badley ( ) to finalise her statement. The statement she finalised is the version to this letter

tbrine intended to file her formal corplaint and statement in Adelaide as it was where she had the best support network for what she envisaged would be a distressing event. The statement attached to this letter is unsigned and unworn. Katharine shared the statement with numerous friends and former teammates and she expressly intended to sign it and hand to the NSW Police officers when they fonrally took her statement in Adelaide

Covid-I9 tragically intervened in Katharine's prooess and the NSW Police officers Samatha Meredith and Scott Bernasconi were unable to travel to Adelaide to take her stat.et on the greed dad due to restrictions on interstate trvel cased by Covid.19

Katharine subsequently voluntarily admitted herself to the Delmont Private Hospital (% psychiatric hospital) in Melbourne from May ad June of 2020. She was treated by Associate Professor Dr Judith Hope. Katharine discharged herself from that hospital on Thursday June I8, 2020. She returned to home isolation in Adelaide (as was required then for Sooth Australia residents returning from Melbouee). She w aloe forge bore isolation without th support or companions.hip of her family or her the estranged hsb.ad

On Wednesday June 24, Katharine rang the NSW Police to tell therm she would not proe dig with her case (prt auraly, as she had decided to kill herself). She cut, hair into the style that she has in the photo with Christi Porter in Appendix l of he tater.et (hairstyle she had not had since 198.') Ad then «he hug herself

friend), the story is known ad actively discussed at tbe bar ad Melboore, rem o spy«doer cir motes or die iii.c~~,",""sir i """"ofhurine's rope comes widely sow to se potie ts it mo aea

J, legitimate questions will be asked as to wbo knew what, when they knew it what they did. This is occurring today in relation to Brittny Higins. In Katharine+ cae, the loss of respect for our political institutions will be etcerbated 6 6 aggravating factor that the accused perpetrator is the (ononwealth Attorney-Gee There will be considerable damage to community perceptions of justice, the jus and the parliament when this story becomes public if it is simultaneously reveled that senor people (like yourselves) were we of tecu tie but had done othing

The rapes alleged by Brittany Higgins and others against a former staffer to Senato Reynolds remind us of the need to de more t protect women. This [ not a partisan ssue. There Are rapists i All parties, ape victims in all parties and people who have "led to speak-up adequately in all parties. Labor filed to pursue the Four Corers

0gatons beee it fered similar stories against senor members Shadow Cabinet

This is a difficult issue. Victims share information it confidence and sometime do e want to pursue claims, at least initially. In this case, victim shared her story with my and begged people to help her to seek justice. T date, defamation law and political inactivity have adversely impacted the ability o, Katharine's claim to be properly addressed

The Cornronwealth Attorney-General has a right to protect his name. Given the facts in this case, we suggest that you could follow tbe lead of the Chief Justice of the High Court in relation to the allegations against Justice Heydon. You could ask Vivienne Thom to conduct a discrete preliminary investigation into the matter to see what facts can be established

Failing to take parliamentary action because the NSW Police c nnot take criminal action would feel like wilful blindness. We request in this case that the three of your work together to find a path forward in this case that does justice to Katharine's memory while not unfairly prejudicing the Attorney-General.

If you asked anyone who knew the three of therm in 1987,a objective observer wout have said that Katharine Christian Porter and Daniel Mulino were all impressive young people but that Katharine had the most potential and would be the one most likely to rise to high political office. Sadly, while the other two are in federal parliament, Katharine killed herself before she was 50

Yours sincerely,

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