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: [email protected] for any questions or comment

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)