Universities Australia (UA), the peak body representing Australia’s 39 universities – including the University of Sydney – released a response submission to the Federal government’s draft Action Plan addressing gender-based violence in higher education in late December last year.
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The report singled out Universities and recommended that an independent body be created to oversee policy and practice at Universities as it relates to sexual misconduct.
The Report’s figures, from chronic under-reporting to the over-representation of international students, don’t come as a surprise to student organisers. The Report provides nothing novel to analyse; there are no new proposals that have not long been championed by advocates at USyd and beyond.
Since 2013, when Bremner founded EROC, she has worked to provide both direct support to students impacted by sexual violence, and to lobby state and federal governments for change.
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The document, which was prepared with no external funding, was partly designed to correct perceived issues with 2017’s Broderick review into USyd colleges.
