Charles Christian Waterstreet (born 17 July 1950) is a former Australian barrister, an author, and theatre and film producer.
He has written two memoirs and produced two films,[1] and he is now a columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald after the NSW Bar Association cancelled his practising certificate.
Waterstreet "improperly, irrelevantly and offensively referred to the nationalities of two witnesses" and "made a number of factual assertions for which there were no proper basis in the evidence at trial".
[14] He began a theatrical career in producing the hit Boys Own McBeth with Grahame Bond (Aunty Jack) from 1979 which ran for nearly three years; it played in Los Angeles with an all-Australian cast.
In 1990 he produced the highly respected Blood Oath which starred Bryan Brown, Russell Crowe and Deborah Kara Unger.
It was shown at the celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of the Geneva Convention on 12 August 1999 in Moscow to highlight aspects of international humanitarian law.
[8] Waterstreet's legal publications include: He is also a regular columnist for The Sun-Herald where he has a weekly feature article in the "Extra" section named "Waterstreetlife".
[18] In October 2017, Waterstreet was accused of sexually harassing law student Tina Ni Huang during a job interview in August 2017.
[19][20] The story was broken by New Matilda editor Chris Graham and Nina Funnell, a freelance journalist and activist against rape and sexual assault.
[22] In 2018, University of Sydney law student Sarah Knight disclosed that she was the pseudonymous "Anita" and joined a complaint taken to the NSW Bar Association by End Rape On Campus Australia, on behalf of Huang, Wilks, and an unnamed third party.
She also alleged that Waterstreet made inappropriately sexual comments to her and other staff members, including jokes about looking for her profile on the dating app Tinder.
In addition to the allegations of sexual harassment, Wilks stated that, due to Waterstreet's financial troubles, she and other staff often had their wage payments delayed for weeks at a time, and that she was owed AU$3580 when she resigned.