CART (0)It was reported in the Sun-Herald on 14 December that the rape crisis hotline number is going to be moved from its current position among the emergency numbers in the front of the phone book to further back in the Help and Health section.
Comment: Is this yet another signal that women’s equality is of no interest to governments around Australia. We know that the rate of sexual assault against women remains high and is probably increasing (See The End of Equality chapter five “A Sex War”). We should be making it as easy as possible for women to report such attacks, not forcing them to flick through a phone book searching for the 24 hour rape crisis hotline.