Geelong is unfortunately renowned for the demographic. This is my second altercation, the last on the road about 12 months ago.
That made me take some self defense lessons
Krav Marga. But honestly, I'm not sure that I have sufficient training to be effective.
The best advice I received was to run, and always keep an obstacle/barrier between yourself and the assailant.
The most interesting part was identifying items to be employed as potential weapons - the dog lead seemed an obvious choice. It may have done the trick.