Period Positivity Program

A reminder that our students can access free emergency period care products across ACU campuses, as part of an ongoing trial.

Students have access to free period care products via dispensers installed at designated toilets across each of ACU’s seven campuses.

Part of Libra’s Period Positivity Program, the initiative can generate positive educational outcomes by helping to support safety and wellbeing at university.

Care is the driving force behind the program, which was developed following a study that showed more than half of women admitted to hiding their period at home, work and school.

The Libra Taboo Study also showed 54 per cent of people agreed it was still taboo to talk openly about periods.

For students experiencing a period emergency, period product dispensers have been placed in the following toilets across ACU campuses:

• Brisbane – building 200 (across from Banyo Café)
• North Sydney – building 502 (level 3)
• Strathfield – building 640 (level 1)
• Blacktown – building 910 (level 2)
• Canberra – building 301 (ground level)
• Melbourne – building 420 (ground level) and building 421 (level 6)
• Ballarat – building 106

Unisex/accessible toilet locations:

• Brisbane – 200.01.04A
• North Sydney –502.3.39
• Strathfield – Library 602 ground floor
• Blacktown – building 910 (level 2)
• Canberra – 301.G.09
• Melbourne – 420.G.12
• Ballarat – 101.G.18a (Library)

The Period Positivity Program trial began in Semester 2, 2024 and will continue through to Semester 2, 2025.