Katherine Berney

Ensuring our frontline can respond with appropriate interventions to violence is essential. We can’t let it slip because “we can’t afford it”.

The events over the past week have highlighted the crisis that we face with men’s and gender-based violence in this country.

Between July and September 2023, over 50,000 Australians applied for the Escaping Violence Payment. More than 50 per cent of applicants were rejected.

A critical examination of doxing’s devastating effects on individuals and society, driving the call for legal reform, cultural change, and a unified approach to online safety and privacy protection.

We should all question what we engage with online and think about what these “humorous or edgy” takes really support and normalize.

Katherine Berney, the Director of the National Women’s Safety Alliance, analyses the media coverage of Olympic cyclist Melissa Hoskins’ death.

People keep asking why aren’t we seeing a change in the unacceptably high rates of family, domestic and sexual violence.

Join the fight against gender-based violence in Australia as we break the silence and demand change. Together, we can make a difference.