Sexual Assault Awareness Month Forum 2026
Join us on 1 April for the 2026 Sexual Assault Awareness Month Forum, a one-day event bringing together community members, victim-survivors, frontline workers, researchers, and advocates from across Western Australia.
The forum will feature keynote speakers and panel discussions focused on raising awareness, sharing evidence and best practice, and strengthening our collective efforts to prevent and respond to sexual violence.
Hosted by the Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing, the peak body for WA’s specialist sexual assault support services, the forum will feature special guests Dr Hannah McGlade, Dr Fiona Vera Gray, Professor Jan Breckenridge and the WA Minister for Women Simone McGurk MLA.
Fiona is a professor of sexual violence at London Metropolitan University and co-director of the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit.
Hannah is from the Kurin Minang people, who has specialised in human rights and Indigenous people and has published widely on many aspects of Aboriginal legal issues, especially those affecting the lives of Aboriginal women and children.
Jan is a Professor and Head of the School of Social Sciences and the Co-Convener of the UNSW Gendered Violence Research Network, UNSW.
This event will feature topics such as:
- Aboriginal women’s experiences of sexual violence
- Australian responses to rape and child sexual abuse
- What it means to reclaim collective resistance and systemic change
- sexual violence in mainstream pornography
- And more – additional speakers and topics will be announced.
This event is for practitioners, advocates, researchers, and community members committed to preventing sexual violence.
Date: 1 April 2026
Location: State Library Theatre, Perth
Time: 9.30am for 10am start
Cost: $25 (lunch and morning tea included)
This event is supported by the Department of Communities.
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