Rex Stephen Wild is a former Director of Public Prosecutions for the Northern Territory of Australia.

Career

Wild was appointed to the position of Director of Public Prosecutions for the Northern Territory in 1998, retiring in 2006. One of his most prominent trials occurred in late 2005 when he led the prosecution of

Bradley John Murdoch Bradley John Murdoch (born 19 February 1958) is an Australian criminal serving life imprisonment for the July 2001 murder of English backpacker Peter Falconio in Australia. He will be 74 when eligible for parole in 2032. Murdoch is being held i ...

for the murder of

Peter Falconio Peter Falconio was a British tourist who disappeared in a remote part of the Stuart Highway near Barrow Creek in the Northern Territory of Australia on the evening of 14 July 2001, while travelling with his girlfriend Joanne Lees. In the afte ...

; he said that this would be his final case as Director of Public Prosecutions, a pledge he fulfilled by retiring. He returned to private law practice when his tenure was completed. He was co-author, with human rights advocate Pat Anderson, of the 2007 "''

Little Children are Sacred ''Little Children are Sacred'', or ''Ampe Akelyernemane Meke Mekarle'' (derived from Arandic languages), is the report of a Board of Inquiry into the Protection of Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse, chaired by Rex Wild and Patricia Anderson. ...

''" report into the

sexual abuse Sexual abuse or sex abuse, also referred to as molestation, is abusive sexual behavior by one person upon another. It is often perpetrated using force or by taking advantage of another. Molestation often refers to an instance of sexual assa ...

Indigenous Australian Indigenous Australians or Australian First Nations are people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups: the Aboriginal peoples ...

children in the Northern Territory.

Honours

In the

2019 Australia Day Honours The 2019 Australia Day Honours are appointments Australian honours system, to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by Australian citizens. The list was announced on 26 January 2019 by the Governor General of Australia, Pet ...

, Wild was made an

Officer of the Order of Australia The Order of Australia is an honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service. It was established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, on the advice of the Australian Gove ...

(AO) for "distinguished service to the law, particularly to criminal litigation and inquiry, and to the community of the Northern Territory".

References

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Director of Public Prosecutions Northern Territory
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