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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