Speech and official launch of new resource developed by Victoria Police and the Australian Institute for Family Studies - Challenging misconceptions about sexual offending: creating an evidence-based resource for police and legal practitioners, followed by panel discussion.

MC: Rob Hulls, Director, Centre for Innovative Justice

Keynote: Justice Jennifer Coate, Commissioner, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

Panel members:

Dean McWhirter, Assistant Commissioner, Family Violence Command, Victoria Police

Louise Serrao, Sexual Offences & Child Abuse Team – was a (SOCIT) Investigator, now works for Taskforce SALUS

Di Elderton, a victim of sexual offences

John Champion, Director, Office of Public Prosecutions

Her Honour Judge Meryl Sexton, County Court Judge in charge of sex offences list