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Media contact

If you are reporting on sexual assault please see the media briefing webpage on this issue and please contact Dr Catherine Barrett on 0429 582 237 or email: director@celebrateageing.com for any questions or comment
Media Briefing on Sexual Assault

In the Media

We are grateful to the journalists and organisations that help spread the word about the work we do - you help us create awareness of the need for change. 
  • Aged Care News (20/7/21). Breakthrough new project on sexual assault acknowledges a nation that is ready to listen. Grant Quarry. (here)
  • The Drum (17/7/21). What does #ReadyToListen mean. Ellen Fanning @28.00 mins (here)
  • Aged Care Insite (8/7/21). New education programs launched to help prevent abuse and sexual assault of older people. Conor Burke (here) 
  • Aged Care Guide (14/7/21). New programs to combat the sexual assault and abuse of older people. Liz Alderslade (here)
  • ABC news (23/2/21) Alleged sexual abuse of aged care home resident not reported to police for five years. Josh Robertson (here)
  • The Drum
  • ABC Radio. The World Today with Sally Sara. (9/6/21). Alarming figures on aged care assaults (here) 
  • Australian Ageing Agenda (15/12/20). Guide supports providers to respond to sexual assault. Sandy Cheu (here)
  • ABC Radio National (14/4/19).The sexual abuse scandal nobody is talking about. Anne Connolly
    • Article: Aged care home carried on 'business as usual' and ignored sexual assault of resident, family says (here)
    • Podcast: Sexual abuse in nursing homes on the rise (here)
  • ABC The Drum (11/4/19): here
  • ABC News (11/4/19). Family launches legal action over Bupa nursing home sex attack (link)
  • Life Matters (9/11/18): Sex and The Senior - what does intimacy look like when you grow old (link) 
  • The Australian Newspaper (9/6/18): He probably thought I'd just keep my mouth shut (link)
  • Senior's Rights Victoria (13/4/18): The Power project: older women and sexual abuse (link)
  • Wendy Searle. Its not your shame. here
  • ​HelloCare. 94-Year-Old Sexual Assault Victim Encourages Others To Speak Out. here
  • Starts at 60. Listen to older women’: 96-year-old sexual assault victim’s powerful plea: here
  • HelloCare. SheToo Campaign – 96 Year Old Margarita Launches Campaign Focusing On Listening To Older Women: here​
  • ABC RN podcast (6/12/16): Late life sex (here)
  • ABC News Melbourne (6/12/16): Sex and ageing. Older people tell us what they really think (link)
  • OMNY FM (1/11/16): Is it ever too late to do the deed (link)
  • ​DPS Publications (July 2016): sexUALITY, ageing and the OPAL Institute in July, check it out here 
  • The New Daily (16/10/16): How old is too old for sex? (here) 
  • ABC Melbourne (12/10/16). Reboot your life. How old is too old to have sex? (here)
  • ABC News (2/8/16): The seniors leading Australia's sexual revolution (here)
  • Aged Care Guide (2106): Sex past seventy. Aren't you too old for that sort of stuff (here)​
  • Australian Ageing Agenda (16/5/16): Sexuality, older people and the power of service providers (link)
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