Overview
- DRCC’s annual report, released Tuesday, logged 23,955 contacts to the 24‑hour helpline in 2025, up 5.5% on 2024 and 29% on 2023.
- Demand for longer‑term care grew as DRCC supported 838 therapy clients in 2025, about 70% higher than two years earlier.
- Disclosures of online abuse, including image‑based harm, rose to 119 cases in 2025, a 63% jump on 2024, with many reports from teenagers and young adults.
- Adult rape accounted for 34.9% of disclosures and child sexual abuse 21.3%, while 70.2% of contacts were from women and about one in five were under 30.
- Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan called the numbers stark and said he will advance laws to restrict access to counselling notes, signaling plans to strengthen supports and legal safeguards.