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Teacher urged teen to treat her 'like sex slave'. Sydney Morning Herald, 30 May 2008. A female teacher who allegedly told a 15-year-old male student to treat her like a sex slave has been charged with sexually penetrating a child.
Man charged with 172 child sex offences. Melbourne Herald Sun, 22 May 2008. The 70-year-old former Deception Bay man was arrested last month after police received allegations of a number of child sex offences which occurred in the 15 months from January 2007.
Rapist blames victims for sex attacks. The Courier Mail, 9 May 2008. A REMORSELESS serial rapist who has not completed a sexual offenders course in jail because it clashes with his dialysis treatment can no longer be rehabilitated before his release, criminologists warn.
Boy, 14, accused of double rape. Sydney Morning Herald, 22 April 2008. A 14-year-old boy has been arrested following the alleged rape of a woman behind an industrial bin in Brisbane.
Burned rape victim says 'It's my fault'. News.com.au, 11 April 2008. A WOMAN whose house was set alight while she lay unconscious after being raped has blamed herself for the attack.

Preventing violence before it occurs: A framework and background paper to guide the primary prevention of violence against women in Victoria Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, based in Melbourne Australia, December 2007
New South Wales, Interagency Plan To Tackle Child Sexual Assault in Aboriginal Communities, 2006 - 2011, New South Wales Government, Australia, 2007
Ampe Akelyernemane Meke Mekarle "Little Children are Sacred" In our Law children are very sacred because they carry the two spring wells of water from our country within them. Report of the Northern Territory Board of Inquiry into the Protection of Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse 2007
Sexual Violence Offenders: Prevention and Intervention Approaches. D. Chung, P.J. O'Leary and T. Hand, Australian Center for the Study of Sexual Assault, 2006
Young People Who Sexually Abuse: Key Issues. Cameron Boyd and Leah Bromfield, Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault, 2006
Personal Safety Survey: 2005 Australian Bureau of Statistics: On Aug. 10, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the results of its first national Personal Safety Survey, PSS, 2005

Depression and termination of pregnancy (induced abortion) in a national cohort of young Australian women: the confounding effect of women's experience of violence. Taft AJ, Watson LF. BMC Public Health; 8(1):75. 2008
Mandatory reporting. Qld Nurse; 27(1): 10-1. 2008
Mandatory [child abuse] reporting legislation in the United States, Canada, and Australia: a cross-jurisdictional review of key features, differences, and issues. Mathews B, Kenny MC. Child Maltreat; 13(1): 50-63. 2008
Inquiry into the trafficking of women for sexual servitude. Commonwealth of Australia. 2004
Risk and the preventive detention of sex offenders in Australia and the United States. Mercado CC, Ogloff JR. Int J Law Psychiatry; 30(1): 49-59. 2007
Measuring and addressing the burden of disease associated with intimate partner violence in Victoria, Australia, Vos T, PhD MSc; Astbury J, PhD; Piers L S, MBBS, MD, PhD, MPH; Magnus A, BEc. Ed. G.; Heenan M, PhD; Walker L, MSW; Webster K, BSW, Family Violence Prevention and Health Practice, Issue 5, Summer 2007
Services for victim/survivors of sexual assault, Identifying needs, interventions and provision of services in Australia, Issues Paper No. 6, Astbury, J., Australian Institute of Family Studies, 2006
Hurley M., Parker H., Wells D. L., The epidemiology of drug facilitated sexual assault, Journal of Clinical Forensic Medicine, 13 (4) 181-185, 2006