It has been described by an attending homicide detective as ‘potentially the most horrific crime scene’ he has ever attended. A 48-year old mother and her two children, an 8 year old son a…
34 Australian women have been killed violently this year. 3 were murdered on Saturday.
To say it’s been an awful week for women is an understatement. It’s been a horrific month and Saturday the 7th of July was diabolical. Three women – two in Victoria and one in New South Wales – were v…
When a father kills his children & destroys a woman’s life
It’s the end of term two today in NSW. The culmination of semester one means report cards and parent-teacher interviews, little markers for the school children in our lives. Yesterday afternoon over t…
Thousands attend vigils across country for the 30 women killed by violence this year
Thousands of people gathered in the Melbourne park last night where Eurydice Dixon was murdered last week. They were there to grieve for Dixon, as well as for the 29 other women killed by violence thi…
Make no mistake: Domestic violence remains a national crisis in Australia
It is prolific and inexplicable. It isn’t new but the past few weeks make it clear, once again, that domestic violence poses a very real threat to women and children in Australia. In the most extreme …
A gut-wrenching poem by Katrina Miles was published on Facebook in 2014
It is hard to imagine much that is as devastating or as shocking as a mass shooting in which seven members of a family are slain. It is desperately sad and horrifically distressing: an end no human de…
‘Good blokes’ don’t murder their families. Full stop.
No one called Martin Bryant a good bloke. I can’t confirm it but I suspect it didn’t even cross anyone’s mind back in 1996 when he committed the deadliest mass shooting in Australia’s history. T…
Domestic violence in Australia is a crisis
Family, domestic and sexual violence is a crisis in Australia that is not abating. A landmark study conducted by the government’s Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) confirms DV re…
The case for paid domestic violence leave: ‘It’s overdue and life-saving’
We cannot rest until all workers across Australia have access to paid family and domestic violence leave, no matter where they work. The only thing now standing in the way of this is the Turnbull Gove…
The bravest speech I have ever seen delivered
I have been to a lot of conferences but I have never seen one start like this. A senior woman stood up, in front of a few hundred of her work colleagues, and said she wanted to dispel a myth about dom…
