Media
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Recent Press releases
- Advocates raise alarm over restricted Independent Parliamentary Standards Commission | 10 September 2024
- Women's safety advocates welcome IPSC legislation as a step forward; but remain concerned about transparency | 21 August 2024
- Disappointment and despair. Budget leaves gaping holes in service safety net women need | 15 May 2024.
- Our legal system is not delivering justice, but not for the reasons #MenToo thinks, 8 April 2024.
- National milestone: patients can no longer be criminalised for abortion care access as of today | Joint release with Australian Women's Health Alliance, 27 March 2024.
- Leading student safety advocates celebrate Action Plan, declare it: the change needed to finally address uni sexual violence | Joint release from Fair Agenda and End Rape on Campus Australia, 23 February 2024.
- Leading student safety advocates welcome draft Action Plan as potentially transformative on sexual violence in unis | Joint release from Fair Agenda, End Rape on Campus Australia, The STOP Campaign, National Union of Students, 22 November 2023.
Recent coverage
Survivors, advocates, experts respond to national cabinet announcement, ABC News, 2 May 2024
ABC radio, Advocates, services react to new measures to combat gendered violence, 2 May 2024
National milestone as abortion officially decriminalised in every state and territory in Australia, Women’s Agenda, 27 March 2024.
Abortion has finally been decriminalised in every state and territory in Australia, Pedestrian TV, 27 March 2024.
A student ombudsman will make students safer. Can we finally end rape on campus? Women’s Agenda, 26 February 2024
INTERVIEW: Fair Agenda’s Renee Carr on agreement to establish student safety ombudsman, SBS News In Depth, 24 February 2024.
‘Breathtaking’: education ministers approve national ombudsman to tackle sexual assault at Australian universities, The Guardian, 23 February 2024.
Jason Clare announces student action plan to target gender based violence, including new ombudsman, The Australian, 23 February 2024
Forty-one community organisations write to WA Premier over LGBT Law Reforms, Star Observer, 11 January 2024
Pressure grows on WA Government over LGBTQI reforms after unions, legal bodies call for urgent action, The West Australian, 9 January 2024
Draft government action plan to end gender-based violence at uni, Women’s Agenda, 23 November 2023
Call for campus sexual assault watchdog to tackle sexual violence at Australian universities, The Guardian, 22 November 2023
‘Need to be accountable’: Draft action plan to end gender-based violence at university released, News.com.au, 22 November 2023
Under pressure to address sexual violence on campus, universities sign on to charter on sexual harm, ABC News, 17 November 2023
Universities criticised for failed response after report details extent of sexual violence on campuses, The Guardian, 14 September 2023
Major university calls for meeting to discuss future of Universities Australia head Catriona Jackson, ABC News, 14 August 2023.
Calls to update university student safety survey after fears true extent of assaults on campuses remains unknown, ABC News, 9 August 2023
Amy Remeikis on rape culture, the good bloke myth and sex ed –podcast, The Guardian, 31 July 2023.
Universities Australia grilled by federal senators as sexual consent hearings come to a close, ABC News, 27 July 2023.
Million-dollar university campaign to tackle sexual violence scrapped for ‘risqué’ material, Women’s Agenda, 28 July 2023.
Exclusive: Universities axe consent program, The Saturday Paper, 22-28 July 2023.
Universities Australia defends dropping $1.5m sexual consent campaign, Sydney Morning Herald, 27 July 2023.
Universities Australia defends move to axe consent campaign, The Canberra Times, 27 July 2023.
Fair Agenda interview on university safety, ABC Afternoon briefing, 20 July 2023.
Students call on federal government to tackle sexual violence at universities, ABC News, 20 July 2023.
Advocates demand action on shocking rates of sexual assault at university, Women’s Agenda, 11 July 2023.
Open letter calls for government to address 'university failures' over sexual violence, ABC news, 10 July 2023.
Sexual violence advocates welcome $14.7 million government investment in justice system, Women’s Agenda, 3 May 2023
EROC and Fair Agenda - “universities can’t be left to mark their own work” on sexual violence, Woroni, 30 April 2023.
Advocates call for action as another 8,800 students expected to be sexually assaulted this academic year, Women’s Agenda, 20 April 2023.