Announcement follows Guardian Australia report on calls to end practice, victim’s $800 bill
Women’s Safety and Justice taskforce called for Queensland Health to ‘immediately’ stop charging victims who aren’t covered by Medicare for medical costs associated with sexual assault.Women’s Safety and Justice taskforce called for Queensland Health to ‘immediately’ stop charging victims who aren’t covered by Medicare for medical costs associated with sexual assault.
Queensland’s Women’s Safety and Justice taskforce highlighted the issue, with its final report released last week containing 188 recommendations to improve treatment in the criminal justice system. Queensland Health acknowledged the findings of the report and said the government would respond to the recommendations “in due course”.
“Imagine a victim having gone through a trauma like that. A young tourist. And then being asked to pay for your opportunity for justice,” the opposition leader, David Crisafulli, said on Friday.Crisafulli said the matter was not a health issue, adding “these women are victims of crime”. “It is sickening that people are burdened with not only the trauma of assault, but then the trauma of covering huge costs for tests and exams,” she told Guardian Australia.
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