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Advocates are hopeful the establishment of Queensland’s first peak body for sexual violence will encourage more victim-survivors to come forward “over time”.
On Thursday, the state government announced it would set up the service, which is only the second of its kind in the country, similar to one in Victoria.
The peak body is intended to represent the collective interests of the sexual violence support sector.
It comes amid data showing reported sexual assaults hit a 32-year high in Queensland in 2024, up 11 per cent on the previous year.
Establishing a peak body was a recommendation of the former Labor government’s Women’s Safety and Justice Taskforce, an independent taskforce which was set up in 2021 and released two reports in 2022.