Thank you for your question.
Anecdotally, I think we have a good understanding of some of the gender elements of these rates of suicide. We need evidence. We don't have evidence.
It's very hard in any culture and in any country to gather evidence around the incidence of child sexual abuse. It's very difficult for a lot of reasons. We have the police reported crimes and convictions that help document the known and the reported rates of crime. We don't know, really, what the true incidence is of unreported crime. We know that previous research has indicated that a woman can experience up to 35 assaults in her home before she goes to the police. These things are very difficult to quantify and to develop evidence for, but absolutely, we know through our work that physical and sexual violence is one issue, but there's also the lack of support to survive these traumas, and they become cumulative.
We talk about the continuum of violence across the lifespan. The federal government absolutely can make a significant contribution to supporting our small part of what we try to do. In looking at previous evidence, we can see that there has been work done around adverse childhood experiences that quantifies each trauma experienced by an individual and tries to measure those compounded impacts that can have a really devastating cumulative effect on an individual. To develop appropriate interventions, there has to be an understanding of the extent and depth of whatever those traumas may be.
Absolutely, on the federal government, we're here and we're ready. We need to rebuild a bit of our capacity. That's just one example of work we'd very much like to get into in terms of trying to build some evidence to tailor culturally appropriate supports.