Sexual Violence in our Midst: Where to go from here.

It is both astonishing and revealing that simultaneously women here in Australia as well as in the UK (and men who support them) have, over the past week needed to raise their voices in anger against the pervasive and continuing scourge of sexual violence and rape.

Repeatedly, long-buried stories have emerged portraying the willingness of men to take advantage of power imbalances to assault and humiliate women.  Sadly, the perpetrators have routinely escaped with impunity while women bore their pain in silence.

It is beyond question that by far the preponderance of sexual assaults and instances of harassment remain unreported and this fact in itself is an indication that something is seriously amiss with our system. Since most victims lack confidence that if they report an assault, they will be accorded fair and sympathetic treatment by authorities or employers they make the election to wrestle with the trauma themselves.

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