“There are over a million lone parent families in Australia, more than 80 percent of them are women and at least 60 percent of those women have escaped living with violent men.” From ⁦Jane Gilmore⁩ janegilmore.substack.com/p/another-woma…

Off to Canberra tomorrow for the Crisis talks on missing and murdered women. I'm thinking about Mum & reconnecting with the intent of my advocacy. I haven't been writing as regularly as I would like to, but I'm hoping to get my thoughts down & share in a few days.

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“Perhaps the help you need is finding safe and affordable housing and navigating the justice system, not in-kind vouchers.” ⁦AnnaCody⁩ our Sex Discrimination Commissioner in ⁦Women's Agenda⁩ womensagenda.com.au/latest/our-res…

That the protestors have become the site of focus and controversy—and not the unfolding genocidal ethnic cleansing that they were trying to draw attention to—is a real lesson in avoidance and displacement, in the lengths people will go to avoid confronting a moral catastrophe.

Cassandra Goldie🌈 You can read the full letter and add your name here: acoss.org.au/a-letter-to-pr…

More than 200 women leaders have written to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese urging him to provide economic security for women leaving violence by raising the rate of Jobseeker and Youth Allowance.

Read more: acoss.org.au/media-releases…

“There needs to be a sense that there is every shoulder to the wheel, and the rhetoric at the moment (from governments) lacks that urgency”. ⁦Fran Kelly⁩ ⁦Patricia Karvelas⁩ podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the…

“It was a murder waiting to happen,” Finlay-Jones’ brother Blake declares. “Knowing what we know now, it doesn’t seem like a surprise to us. It seems clear he was escalating towards killing a woman.” Via ⁦Amelia Adams⁩ ⁦The Sydney Morning Herald⁩ smh.com.au/national/nsw/i…

An important clarification from Jess Hill on this piece by Jacqueline Maley.

This is why I say, that once coercive control laws start to take effect, we will likely see a whole different cohort of abuser emerge into the visibility of the criminal system. Our current, incident…

“It may mean offloading our assumptions about gender equality as the holy grail. But we shouldn’t ditch the overarching goal. It seems to me that a more gender-equal society would help women escaping violence for reasons that are purely economic.” theage.com.au/national/where…

'When you're walking with people in life, you've got to walk beside people who are traumatised, you don't walk in front and drag them, and you don't walk behind and push. You walk beside them,' - Cheryl Kickett-Tucker, Koya Aboriginal Corp.

How perfectly said.

How to help a…

“I do question how much the university administration understands the concept of free speech,” says USC journalism professor Afua Hirsch. “The point of free speech is that people have the right to say things that you might find uncomfortable or inconvenient,” she tells me.

“As we read on, hundreds of pages of coronial files began to reveal the horrific ways these women's lives were taken — all had tried to get help before being brutally murdered by men they knew.” Via ⁦Bridget Brennan⁩ ⁦Brooke Fryer⁩ ⁦ABC News⁩ abc.net.au/news/2024-05-0…

Can’t wait to watch & it’s one thing to read & another to feel the emotion of hearing Antony Loewenstein humanise Palestinians & remind us as we see, how many are < 18. Or were.

Thank you Antony & Brietta. 🙏🏽

Amani Haydar Professor Nareen Young I started reporting on FV that year. It was awful to observe - truly traumatic for refuge workers and managers. It was an effort to defang and defeminise the sector. And historically, a reversal back to pre-Elsie days when the big church groups ran the shelters.

Professor Nareen Young Yep. Every experienced frontline worker I've ever met talks about how that dessimated the sector, caused the loss of skills and expertise, and created a permanent sense of insecurity for specialist dv services.

I am one of countless people across Australia work in unfunded, grassroots organisations providing frontline support to people who have been impacted by gendered violence. There are thousands of us. And that’s an incredibly bad thing. ⁦Sharna Bremner⁩ news.com.au/lifestyle/real…

Agree wholeheartedly Kristine Ziwica - it’s a forensic analysis of some of the levers and blockers by Laura Tingle #DFSV

Alison Scott's message this week ahead of the talks in Canberra was simple: 'We have been controlled for a very long time, not only by perpetrators but also by systems.' This is a masterclass in connecting the dots from ⁦Laura Tingle⁩ ⁦ABC News⁩ abc.net.au/news/2024-05-0…