Reporting sexual assault felt like ‘talking to a wall’

Catherine Dunn tells disability royal commission the absence of an Auslan interpreter meant she was forced to speak

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When Catherine Dunn went to tell a university wellbeing officer she had been sexually assaulted, a lack of appropriate services left her feeling like she was talking to a wall".

Dunn, who is deaf, was assaulted as a teenager at a party and at a university, where she was a resident.

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