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…
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…
