On-campus sexual assault and harassment was one of the biggest news stories of the year. Yet only students were the focus of the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)'s inquiry and report on this subject. This doesn't mean university staff are immune to this phenomenon. Indeed, the Weinstein scandal has shifted ...
More »Medical students say sexual harassment a ‘very big issue’ in hospitals
"Anecdotally, it's a very big issue," said Douglas Roche, external vice president of the Australian Medical Students' Association (ASMA), in reference to the sexual assault and harassment of medical students. He made this comment in light of this week's Human ...
More »Unis respond strongly, yet differently, to sexual assault report
It’s 2017, and institutions are rightly taking sexual assault and harassment seriously. All of the 39 member-universities of Universities Australia responded swiftly and comprehensively to the Australian Human Rights Commission’s report on sexual harassment and sexual assault on campus, released ...
More »Over one in four students sexually harassed in 2016: human rights report
A woman who was kissed on the cheek by a teacher on the bus on the way to uni. A woman from a residential college who went out partying and was encouraged to drink by a male friend and fellow ...
More »Postgrads speak up on sexual assault
Sexual assault and harassment on campus isn’t just the concern of vulnerable first-years. That’s why the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA), the peak body representing over 320,000 postgraduate students, has piped up. They’ve submitted 19 recommendations to the Human Rights Commission, ...
More »Sexual harassment ‘ignored’ in rural areas
Research presented to a symposium at the University of Canberra has revealed that rural centres tend to ignore sexual harassment or blame the victims. The study reveals that a large majority of employers and employees in rural and remote Australia ...
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