{"id":133842,"date":"2025-09-10T22:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/133842\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T22:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:45:08","slug":"dame-julie-christie-defends-tom-phillips-documentary-amid-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/133842\/","title":{"rendered":"Dame Julie Christie defends Tom Phillips documentary amid backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Herald NOW\u2019s Ryan Bridge received a text from Christie which said she was abiding by the strict rules put in place by police.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have never asked to shoot anything with the children. We have been with the same small group of detectives only, for the past seven months. We have not seen the children. We abide by strict police rules at all times.\u201d *<\/p>\n

\"TheThe family of Phillips have said they\u2019re \u201cdisturbed\u201d by the documentary that\u2019s being made about the case. Photo \/ Michael Craig<\/p>\n

In a statement to RNZ, Phillips\u2019 sister Rozzi Phillips<\/a> spoke out against the documentary.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur family is disturbed that anyone would want to profit from our tragedy. At this worst of times, the children\u2019s privacy must be protected. They should not be filmed. No footage of them should be published, and their ordeal and recovery should not be used for entertainment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mother of the Phillips children, Cat, has told RNZ M\u0101ori news podcast Mata that she does not support or consent to a documentary being made.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Police Minister Mark Mitchell told Breakfast that although he knows there is a high level of public interest, the children\u2019s privacy must continue to be protected in the documentary.<\/p>\n

He said it was his understanding that police had full editorial control.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe broader question for me with the children is that we\u2019re a free country.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow do we make sure that they\u2019re safe? That they are reintegrated, and that they\u2019re protected from\u2026 public scrutiny, media scrutiny so that they can actually get on with their lives?\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AA photo posted on social media by Cat of her and her three children during a visit to the park in November 2021.<\/p>\n

Acting executive director for media and communications for police, Claire Trevett, said police had never given the documentary crew access to film anything involving the children, nor had such access been sought, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe agreement with police specifies that, beyond photos already in the media, the children will not be identified on screen in the film.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trevett said this applies unless there is written consent from both the children\u2019s legal guardian and police.<\/p>\n

She confirmed that police are not receiving any payment for participating.<\/p>\n

The production is not allowed to be broadcast before the completion of any Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA), coronial or other inquiries, Trevett said.<\/p>\n

This story has been corrected and updated after comments made by presenter Ryan Bridge were wrongly attributed to Julie Christie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Herald NOW\u2019s Ryan Bridge received a text from Christie which said she was abiding by the strict rules…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[92460,13652,91382,64,63,86463,23182,447,502,92455,92458,53378,92456,1691,134,2582,1689,9674,38018,29254,92454,92457,92459,91595,1158,43495,4215,92461,64631,792],"class_list":["post-133842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-abided","tag-amid","tag-asked","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-backlash","tag-behind","tag-celebrities","tag-children","tag-christie","tag-controversial","tag-dame","tag-defends","tag-documentary","tag-entertainment","tag-family","tag-film","tag-following","tag-hunt","tag-involved","tag-julie","tag-maker","tag-never","tag-phillips","tag-police","tag-rules","tag-says","tag-strict","tag-times","tag-tom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}