Women’s Safety and Justice Taskforce highlights inactions by authorities in communities
and response to domestic violence within the Queensland police services.
In one instance, the taskforce was told that a victim was waiting outside a police station to report her assault when she was approached by the perpetrator who asked: “What are you trying to do?” Trevitt said high rates of Indigenous women being misidentified as perpetrators of domestic violence had resulted in a reluctance to contact the authorities.
Sexual violence is highly underreported in Australia, with as little as 10% of incidents resulting in complaints to police.The taskforce said that, in one community, victims “commonly” went to the hospital for treatment from sexual assault without proceeding with a complaint. The sexual violence was not disclosed due to fears of “violent retaliation and revenge” and a lack of female health professionals.
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