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Queensland’s Framework to address Sexual Violence

Prevent. Support. Believe. Queensland’s Framework to address Sexual Violence

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QSAN supports calls for Australia to consider a UK-style ban on pornography depicting strangulation and suffocation. Recent Australian research found that 57% of people aged 18-35 surveyed had experienced strangulation during sex. As stated by Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek, there is “no safe way to strangle someone.” The increasing normalisation of strangulation during sex is deeply concerning. Pornography can expose young people to depictions of strangulation and other forms of sexual violence and normalise these activities without providing an understanding of the risks involved. QSAN believes restricting these depictions should be accompanied by age-appropriate sexuality and relationships education that should include, among other things, information about the risks and harms of sexual strangulation. We also support reform in Queensland so that consent cannot be relied upon as a defence to the criminal offence of strangulation in sexual contexts. Strangulation can cause serious injury, including brain damage and death. We need prevention, education and law reform that challenge its normalisation as an expected part of sex. Read the ABC News article: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-30/pressure-for-government-to-ban-strangulation-in-pornography/107094758 #PreventSexualViolence #SexualStrangulation #RespectfulRelationships

3 days ago

QSAN thanks Michaela Cronin, DFSV Commissioner and strongly supports her call for a sharp focus and sustained investment in sexual violence support, response and prevention in Australia. The DFSV Commissioner tabled her 3rd report to the federal parliament yesterday. "She said sexual violence also needed to be treated as a distinct problem, with more than half of sexual violence incidents happen outside family relationships. Limiting the national conversation to domestic violence reforms risks obscuring those cases, the report warns." "It acknowledged the government action taken thus far, but said it was not at the pace or scale needed to keep up with the exploding rates of sexual violence."

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Every child and young person has the right to grow up safe from sexual violence. Yet children remain disproportionately represented among victim-survivors of sexual assault - making prevention, early intervention and access to specialist support critical. This Child Protection Week (6-12 September), the theme 'Every Conversation Matters: Shifting Conversation to Action' is an important reminder that keeping children safe requires more than asking children to protect themselves. It requires adults, communities, services, institutions and governments to create environments where children and young people are safe, listened to, believed and supported. In our recent submission on the Second Action Plan under the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022–2032, QSAN called for greater recognition of children as victim-survivors in their own right, and stronger investment in the specialist responses they need. This includes developmentally appropriate counselling and therapeutic support for children under 12, greater investment in evidence-based harmful sexual behaviour programs for children and young people, and specialist-led prevention and education. We have also called for stronger action to ensure children's safety is prioritised when child sexual abuse is raised within the family law system. For practical information about preventing child sexual abuse and keeping children and young people safe, visit the National Office for Child Safety: https://www.childsafety.gov.au/ #ShiftingConversationToAction #ChildProtectionWeek #ChildSafety #SexualViolencePrevention

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