The millions of Australians in the survivor community are asking: what does justice look like for us?

‘The Coalition have aggressively resurrected the sad story of Brittany Higgins for political mileage.’ Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 22% of Australian women (2.2 million) and 6.1% of men (582,400) over 18 years of age have experienced sexual violence.

So if a significant number of people in your social sphere have been noticeably tetchy, tense, dissociative, hypervigilant, avoidant, angry, despairing or just screamingly angry in the weeks since the Coalition decided to aggressively resurrect the sad story of Brittany Higgins for political mileage, this may be why.