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In Australia there is a huge pay gap between men and women. In fact, our daughters will retire with 64% of the super that our sons will have. That's a disgraceful difference.

I'm in Australia, and my 10 year old daughter hasn't seen too much about politics, but when Rudd took over as PM from Gillard recently she said it was funny seeing a man as the Prime Minister. She hadn't noticed anything about politics until recently when Julia Gillard was our Prime Minister...

This part is over. This is only the beginning. We have a 6 month wait now before we find out what happens next.

There is a sexual assault specific clinic where I'm moving to. Well, 40 minutes away anyway, it won't have to stop completely.

Thanks, this is only the beginning though, it could be up to 3 years before it's over :(

It's out of my hands now anyway, the evidence will be presented regardless and that's what scares me, people seeing that.

I'm not going to sleep too well tonight.

Feel like driving off a cliff is a better option than this.

Court appearance tomorrow. I could very well die of shame. His lawyers will be given all the evidence, including horrifying photos of me that nobody should ever see. It's way too late to back out.

I don't have an actual doctor that I see regularly. We're in a new town and only here until December before we move again. It's possibly because the forensics examination was traumatic in itself following being assaulted.

I'm a care-free hippy by nature, so would be like that again, hopefully anyway.

I'm aiming to do a dino dig :)

Psychiatrist. I'm now seeing a therapist who is highly trained and specialises in PTSD and sexual violence, she's a Doctor herself but is not the one who diagnosed me.

That's why I'm doing this one as well, there are clear time frames, it's long enough to include various lots of school holidays but with a definite time frame still :)

I have lots of things that I want to do before I die, not so much a bucket list, it started off as a 40 b4 40 list, but now been introduced to Day Zero Project which is more my style. The Northern Territory trip will be jam-packed. Going in the Cage Of Death, visiting Wycliff Well (Australian...

Wow. Just, wow. Yes, everyone has stress. Yes, some stress can be simply shaken off and let go of. What that has to do with PTSD is beyond me.

This is for people who experienced sexual violence I guess. How do you make yourself go for any other medical follow ups and routine procedures? I will probably never willingly have another pap smear. I'm done with everything relating to the assault and have been tested for every disease and...

I had quite a bump to the head that rattled my brain a little bit. There is minimal damage, but I do notice "blanks" a fair bit when trying to write things down. Hoping that will sort itself out, although I work with younger children which is a blessing. It makes writing difficult. Even...

I'm struggling with how to put it into the written word, and know that every time I type it, it comes out completely wrong. It's not about sharing as such, more about the way it comes across. I have already worded things poorly, I do understand I need to do the work, not the therapist, however...

I have a few short term goals and long term goals. Without goals I'm lost. Some are pretty basic, I wake up with the goal of getting my daughter to school on time, with a good lunch and an ironed uniform, and having a decent meal on the table in the evening. Pretty standard things really, who...

I put it down to the fact that I should have been safe inside my own home, but wasn't. However, nobody is going to break into a moving vehicle driving 100km/hour and attack us in broad daylight. Had the trauma been caused by something different, perhaps the response could be different? I...

I have inadvertantly shared a little with potential employers, only because I am an educator and have spoken to the schools in the area we're moving to regarding enrolling my daughter. I had to give a little background information to 2 of the 3 schools because my daughter was part of it and it...

It's been a tough journey so far. At first I just felt numb, I was very busy selling the house and organising cleaners, removalists, real estates, solicitors relating to the sale of the house, all from a different town. Finding new specialists for my daughter who has Autism, enrolling her in a...

I had 300 friends on Facebook, mostly people I interacted with professionally or through involvement in music or charity work, but I deleted the account and created a new one, adding just 20 people who are mainly family and friends who don't live nearby. It's just to post pictures of my...

In Australia it's State owned.