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Violence and sexual abuse against children has increased sharply over the past decade. Research from the University of Sydney found the situation is at crisis point and governments need to co-operate better to tackle the problem.

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00:01we found a steady increase in sexual assaults among girls over the whole period and then for
00:08boys we see sort of stable rates with a strong increase in the last three to five years similarly
00:13for family and domestic violence we see generally stable rates until about 2019 to 2021 after which
00:21time we see a really strong acceleration in rates interestingly for hospitalizations for assault
00:29and child protection data we don't see the same increases but really concerning to see those
00:35increases in sexual assault and family and domestic violence

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