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Support services see a rise in women talking for the first time about sexual assaults, but news is distressing to many abuse survivors
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Keely Walsh is a social worker who has spent the last eight years helping women who have experienced sexual assault.
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Sexual assault support organisations and mental health workers say they are seeing more Australian women coming forward to tell their own stories of abuse, after weeks of public reporting on the issue.
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Mental health workers say the media coverage of sexual assault allegations is distressing to many survivors