News & Views What you need to know about financial abuse & what to do if it happens to you Financial abuse is when a person controls your access to money or property without your consent or manipulates your financial decisions.
News & Views See What You Made Me Do: why it’s time to focus on the perpetrator when tackling domestic violence Four years of intensive journalistic investigation have produced See What You Made Me Do, a book by Jess Hill about power, control & abuse.
News & Views 24 women have now been violently killed this year in Australia In 2019, 24 women have been violently killed in Australia and it’s estimated that between 50-75% percent of those were killed by someone they knew.
News & Views The shock of being abused by a stranger on the street Georgie Dent was with her kids when a man leaned out his car window & screamed “F&*(ING SLUTS!” While shocking this harassment is commonplace.
News & Views Natalia & Tamara know the dangers of abusive relationships. They both survived & they’re speaking up. Natalia and Tamara both experienced extreme violence in an abusive relationship and they are both speaking publicly about it to create change.
News & Views Tayla Harris hits back at trolls: ‘What are these people doing behind closed doors?’ In an interview Tayla Harris gave on radio with RSN Breakfast on Wednesday morning she said there needs to be consequences for the trolls.
News & Views Cardinal George Pell sentenced to six years in prison for ‘callous & brazen’ abuse Chief Judge Peter Kidd has sentenced Cardinal George Pell to six years in jail for the ‘callous’ and ‘brazen’ abuse of two choirboys in Melbourne in 1996.
News & Views ‘For many survivors it will be immensely challenging’: The sentencing of Cardinal George Pell The President of the Blue Knot Foundation Dr Cathy Kezelman AM says the reaction to George Pell’s sentencing will be emotionally charged & polarising.
News & Views Domestic violence in Australia is a crisis A landmark study from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare paints a dire picture of domestic violence in Australia. One woman dies every week and one in six Australian women have experienced domestic or sexual violence.