{"id":921513,"date":"2026-10-09T06:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T06:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/921513\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T06:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T06:14:10","slug":"sydney-councillor-yvonne-weldon-accuses-mick-mundine-of-child-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/921513\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney councillor Yvonne Weldon accuses Mick Mundine of child sexual assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">City of Sydney councillor Yvonne Weldon has come forward as the complainant at the centre of prominent Indigenous elder Mick Mundine&#8217;s child sexual assault charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Mr Mundine was arrested on Thursday by the Sex Crimes Squad over the historical allegation involving a 15-year-old girl, which is alleged to have taken place in Redfern in 1986.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Aboriginal Housing Company chief executive, 79, was charged with sexual assault, and sexual assault of a person under the age of 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Ms Weldon made the announcement in a social media post on Friday, writing that it was &#8220;never too late to speak up&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;I have carried this for 40 years. It is time to no longer carry it,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;I came forward for the children who are here now and to break the culture of silence that allows abuse to continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;To other survivors of abuse in its many forms, you are not alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;It is never too late to speak up and seek support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Black and white photo of a man smiling\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/7b97dd08993b9ebe894a005399ad09a6.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Mr Mundine was granted police bail after being charged on Thursday. (LinkedIn)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Elected in 2021, Cr Weldon is the first Aboriginal councillor to sit on the City of Sydney council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Mr Mundine was granted bail by police to front the Downing Centre Local Court next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City of Sydney councillor Yvonne Weldon has come forward as the complainant at the centre of prominent Indigenous&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[489311,64,63,75490,146776,489309,44,149134,6671,670,489310],"class_list":["post-921513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-aboriginal-housing-company","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-child-sexual-assault","tag-city-of-sydney","tag-mick-mundine","tag-news","tag-redfern","tag-sexual-assault","tag-sydney","tag-yvonne-weldon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921513","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=921513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}