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The daughters of playwright Dorothy Hewett have said they were raped and sexually assaulted as children by prominent members of the Australian arts community.
Speaking to The Australian ($), Rozanna and Kate Lilley said their mother encouraged men to have sex with her underage daughters. Kate Lilley described the family’s Woollahra home in the 1970s as “like a brothel without payment”, saying she and her sister were “interesting jailbait objects” for men in the theatre, film, artistic and literary scenes. Both women have described being sexually assaulted by writer Bob Ellis, artist Martin Sharp, photographer David Hamilton and others, and have published recounts of their abuse in two books, Do Oysters Get Bored? and Tilt …
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The Saturday Paper
