Jill Meagher’s husband Tom, isn’t mincing his words when it comes to Charlie Sheen, and who can blame him? Taking to Twitter, Meagher– who’s long fought the scourge of violence…
We despair. 10 women murdered in 22 days.
UPDATE: This piece originally counted 13 deaths but police have since confirmed one death was not suspicious. The number of verified instances of women killed by violence against women in the past 22 …
Eight women killed in ten days: Domestic violence remains deadly
One woman dies every week at the hands of a current or former partner. It’s a sentence – a dreadful statistic – that is likely familiar with any Australian who regularly watches, lis…
Tarang Chawla: How many more women & children need to die before our leaders step up?
I’m sure you’ve heard about the most recent horrific case of family violence in Australia. Anthony Harvey has allegedly killed five people – his female partner Mara Lee Harvey, three…
Another massacre in suburbia: two women & three girls killed in Perth
How can it be? On Sunday, for the third time in less than four months, Western Australian police have attended a home and discovered what appears to be a mass murder. Yesterday in Perth’s north-…
Legal aid funding guarantee is necessary to ban the cross-examination of domestic violence survivors
The Law Council is urging the Australian Government to accept the recommendation of a bipartisan report, which found a guarantee of additional funding for legal aid is necessary before a bill to ban t…
Women rarely lie, they can’t ‘just leave’ & leaving won’t always stop the violence: Myths about DV debunked
A resource for judges in Australia that is designed to improve the understanding of family violence has been updated and dispels a number of myths about domestic violence that can impede justice and p…
A national horror show: Domestic violence death toll continues to rise
It was impossible to miss. I clicked on The Age‘s homepage on Thursday just after lunch and saw a sea of women’s faces. Four of the five lead stories on a major newspaper’s website r…
May The Teacher’s Pet finally deliver Lyn Dawson the justice she deserves
To be enthralled in The Teacher’s Pet, the podcast series by Hedley Thomas for The Australian, is hardly unique. The series has been downloaded more than three million times by listeners the world ove…
Eight people have been killed in their homes in 11 days. Four of them were children.
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…
