October 27, 2026 — 7:30pm

Kirsten Iosefo sometimes wonders what her life would look like had it not been for sexual abuse as a child, and sexual assault as an adult.

“What might I have studied? What career would I have pursued?” she wonders.

Kirsten Iosefo says victim-survivors of sexual offences deserve to be kept informed as to why their police complaints are not proceeded with. Arsineh Houspian

“What could I have created or contributed if so much of my life hadn’t been spent managing the consequences of other people’s actions?”

As a little girl, her disclosures of sexual abuse when she was kindergarten and primary school-aged were disbelieved by the adults she told.

A child of a middle-class family, her parents insisted she had “a wild imagination” and her teachers and a GP believed them. As an adult, she was revisited by the terrible and often lasting trauma of sexual abuse .

“I was in a long-term relationship characterised by family and domestic violence.…