By Elly Mackay

Warning: this story contains mentions of sexual assault and child sexual abuse.

Ahead of the inaugural National Survivors' Day, members of the University of Canberra community have come together with academics, journalists, survivor advocates and government to participate in a ribbon-tying ceremony, showing support to survivors of sexual abuse.

At the ribbon-tying event, which took place as part of the After the Silence symposium hosted by the University’s News and Media Research Centre (N&MRC), attendees were asked to tie a colourful ribbon to a fence to acknowledge and empower survivors, and to reflect on the ongoing harms caused by sexual assault and institutional abuse.