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Nobody Is Listening To The University Students Speaking Out About Sexual Violence On Campus
When we ignore sexual violence in universities and allow perpetrators to go unchecked, it’s no wonder people are being raped and assaulted in Parliament.
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I attended my first protest against sexual violence just after I began university.
It was 2017 and the Australian Human Rights Commission had just released the Change the Course Report, over 250 pages detailing the prevalence of sexual assault and harassment at Australian universities in 2015 and 2016. Of the 30,000+ students who responded, 1 in 5 students were sexually harassed in a university setting, and 1.6% had been sexually assaulted in a university setting, including travel to and from campus.
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Sexual assault and mental health services have been dealing with increased calls and emails from survivors following public allegations of rape and sexual assault against the attorney general and a ministerial staffer over the past month.
Christian Porter has strongly denied the allegation, which dates back to 1988 and was detailed in a bundle of documents sent anonymously to the prime minister and other senior MPs in late February.
Lisa Cheng, the executive director of marketing and fundraising for Lifeline Australia, told Guardian Australia the support service had been experiencing high levels of demand in recent weeks.
Porter must go: Youth survivors speak out against sexual violence
On Friday afternoon, around 250 students attended a snap rally at Town Hall called by School Strike 4 Climate activist Danielle Villafaña.
March 13, 2021
On Friday afternoon, around 250 students attended a snap rally at Town Hall called by School Strike 4 Climate activist Danielle Villafaña. The rally demanded the firing of Attorney-General Christian Porter following recent revelations of sexual assault, and additionally called for the firing of Federal Defence Minister Linda Reynolds.
The rally heard many testimonies from survivors of sexual violence. Shanaya Donovan, a seventeen year-old Dharug woman who chaired the rally alongside Villafaña, spoke on her personal experience of sexual harassment and argued for better protections for vulnerable women and girls: “Today, seventeen year old me is standing here, urging you to step in and protect the young girl with her school skirt all the way down to her ankle
Why the Rape Claim Against Australiaâs Attorney General Seems Familiar
Some see unsettling parallels with another powerful man halfway across the world.
âThe things that are claimed to have happened did not happen,â Australiaâs attorney general, Christian Porter, said last week in Perth.Credit.Stefan Gosatti/Agence France-Presse â Getty Images to get it by email.
He was accused of sexual assault decades after it allegedly occurred, in a way that makes police investigation all but impossible. Backed by his party and the most powerful man in the country, he maintained his innocence and held one of the most important legal positions in the country, even as questions continued to swirl around him.