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How to find out who your MP is and their email address

If you already know who your MP is, you can search for their email here: www.parliament.vic.gov.au/members/

If you’re unsure, you can:

  1. Visit the government’s interactive map: findelectorate.parliament.vic.gov.au

  2. Search for your address or, if you’re a sexual assault service worker, the address of your service.

  3. Select the name of the district that appears.

  4. Select your MP’s name and then the ‘Contact’ tab to find their email.

Below, we’ve included some text that you can edit to make your own.

Thank you again for adding your voice to our campaign. If you receive a response from your MP, please forward your response to: comms@sasvic.org.au

Dear [Ms/Dr/Mrs/Mr Last name],

I’m writing to you today as a constituent in [your electorate] and the leader of your local specialist sexual assault service, [insert org name], to urge you to use your voice and influence ahead of the 2025 Victorian Budget to call for urgent investment into frontline sexual assault services.

Every day, I see the terrible impact sexual violence has on victim survivors and our community. Last year, there was a 21.3% increase in reported sexual offences in Victoria. We also know that the number of sexual offences reported only represents a fraction of what is actually happening, as 9 in 10 women do not report to police.

[Your service] is an essential frontline service, one of 18 specialist sexual assault services supporting the community across Victoria, but we cannot meet the needs of the community due to chronic underfunding.

Our services give survivors a voice, a place to make sense of their experience and recover. But across the state, we are only funded to work with 19,000 survivors of sexual violence each year, which pales in comparison to the true number of people who have experienced sexual assault in our community.

Urgent resourcing is needed to meet demand, but the impacts of sexual violence can be all encompassing, and just meeting demand isn't enough.

When someone experiences sexual violence, they face the decision of whether to report to a justice system that is complex, intimidating and can often be re-traumatising. We want to develop training for judges, magistrates, lawyers and police to improve survivor experiences of our justice system.

Sexual violence can impair someone's capacity to work, study and live life to its full potential and recovering from the impacts of sexual violence can take a long time. We know that survivors need a range of groups and long-term support but we aren't funded to provide what's needed to give survivors the best chance at recovery.

We want to be able to answer every call for help when there's been a child sexual abuse incident in a local school and to meet the rising cases of children engaging in harmful sexual behaviour. To do this, the sector needs to be properly invested in.

Our peak body for the sector, SASVic, has put together a list of 19 changes that would make a real meaningful difference. You can read them here: www.sasvic.org.au/sasvic-campaign.

SASVic and all 18 specialist sexual assault services are calling on the government to uphold survivors’ rights, give survivors the best chance to recover and respect survivors by building a thriving specialist sexual assault sector.

Will you act on sexual violence?

Yours sincerely,

[Your name]