Click here to read. This is not the full publication. I scanned this in 2018 and it sat on my hard disk for six years so I cannot remember why I did not scan the lot, but when time permits I will revisit it and perhaps add the rest. However, I am sure I would not have omitted anything I considered important.
The first article about this centre (from the inside) appeared in the national press on May 28, 1976.
The origins of Rape Crisis (in Britain) can be traced to a meeting in London of around forty women in November 1974. The first one ever appears to have been set up in Australia in 1971, although doubtless women have been offered informal advice on this subject for many years before that.
This report makes interesting reading, not least because of the claim on page 1 that they are the only organisation in the country equipped to comment responsibly on this subject.
Also, on page 5 they admit that their definition of rape is considerably wider than that of the law including unwanted sexual attention – wolf whistles!?
On page 13, it is clear that the police (rightly) did not want to give these women the time of day. Sadly, things have changed a lot since then.
Needless to say, this report is also a thinly disguised plea for more (public) funding.
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