DPP v Coulter [2024] ACTSC 262
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DPP v Coulter [2024] ACTSC 262
ReportDriving offences – reference to Bugmy Bar Book chapters and Wellbeing, Healing and Rehabilitation Report
Coram: Taylor J
- Psychologist report referred to Bugmy Bar Book, Childhood Exposure to Domestic and Family Violence (November 2019) and Bugmy Bar Book, Impacts of Imprisonment and Remand in Custody (November 2022) : at [54], [81]
- Referred to Wellbeing Report in noting importance of culture, kin, community and country:
- [82] Ms Edwige recorded what I know to be true and that is the inextricable link for Aboriginal people between our overall wellbeing and our sense of self experienced through our expression of cultural identity and our connectedness to kin, community, and country. For the offender, as a Yuin man, this factor could be a significant source of strength if he is given the opportunity to access services that promote his healing at the same time as reinforcing the strength to be found in his connectedness to our culture. (see Significance of Culture to Wellbeing, Healing and Rehabilitation, Dr Paul Gray and Vanessa Edwige, June 2021).
- Bugmy factors given full weight: at [70]
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