Hi everyone,
Last week was a big one on the national stage for gendered violence responses.
On Wednesday, federal Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commissioner, Micaela Cronin, did a national press club on her inaugural report to federal parliament. Importantly, she stressed the need for greater attention to sexual violence, and in her report, highlighted the prevention work of the Victorian specialist sexual assault and HSB sector in schools (see page 66 fore more details).
Then, on Friday last week, the rapid review of prevention set up by the Prime Minister was released. Again, like the Commissioner, the reviewers stressed the need for a greater focus on sexual violence (see page 10).
It sounds obvious, but as we all know, too often sexual violence is ignored in policy discussions. The shift we're seeing on this is in part because of the advocacy the specialist SV sector has been doing, nationally and here in Victoria, including in our meetings with the Commissioner. (You can see some of our media response here. And if you want to more about these sorts of things as they happen, follow our X, Instagram or Linked In accounts).
Finally, if you're going to the No To Violence conference next week, look out for SASVic Senior Officer, Dr Monica Campo's, presentation, Exploring the impacts of pornography: insights from the specialist sexual assault sector, at 2pm on Wednesday.
Warmly,
Kathleen
CEO
SASVic
