Threat to raped nurse ignored - Australia/Aboriginal/Sex Trade
Tony Koch;4/3/08
A nurse on remote Mabuiag Island in the Torres Strait has been raped by an intruder more than a year after the Queensland Government was warned her accommodation and that of others in the region lacked even basic security, putting them at “extreme risk”. The Queensland Government ignored the internal report it received in November 2006, despite its authors warning of significant risks to staff “thatneed to be addressed immediately”. Following last month’s attack, the 27-year-old victim - who worked alone on the island and had pleaded for improved security - was flown to Cairns where she was hospitalised. The conditions in which nurses, teachers, police and other public servants are expected to live when posted to Cape York and Torres Strait island communities have been the source of constant complaint for more than a decade.
See: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23315218-2702,00.html