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Police or Ambulance

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In an emergency, call 000 (triple zero) for the police, ambulance or fire service.

1800 RESPECT

1800 737 732
1800RESPECT helps with domestic and family violence.

Lifeline

13 11 14
Lifeline - helps with hard feelings, like throughs about suicide or dying.

Qlife general info

1800 184 527
Qlife links LGBTQIA+ people to peer support and referrals. Call between 3pm and midnight.

13 YARN

13 92 76
13 Yarn is for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are feeling worried or no good.
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In this section, we share information to help you stay safe.
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Staying safe

In this section, we share information to help you stay safe.

This includes how you can understand your:

  • experiences

  • Rights are rules about how people must treat you:

    • fairly
    • equally.

This section includes information for:

  • people with disability
  • their families and carers
  • their friends.

Lots of people are part of our community.

This includes people with different:

  • ages
  • abilities
  • bodies
  • backgrounds.

Our community includes:

  • women and girls with disability
  • people with disability who are

    A gender diverse person is someone:

    • who feels like they do not fit the idea of being a man or a woman
    • whose gender given to them when they were born does not match the gender they are.

Some links in this section take you to information about

Violence and abuse is when someone:

  • hurts you
  • scares you
  • controls you.

We have information and resources on this website to help you get the support you need.

You can find out more on our page about support.

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For example, a friend or family member.

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