domestic violence

Thousands gathered in the Melbourne park last night where Eurydice Dixon was murdered last week to grieve and speak out about violence against women.

Domestic violence is deadly. Twenty four Australian women have been killed violently in the first five months of 2018: research by the Counting Dead Women Australia researchers of Destroy The Joint indicates that at least two thirds of those were killed by a former or current partner.

In 2014 Cynda Miles shared a poem authored by her daughter Katrina Miles. To describe the poem as heartbreaking or gut-wrenching doesn’t begin to cover it.

Peter Miles is believed to have shot his wife, his daughter and four grandchildren before shooting himself. In most instances brutally murdering anyone categorically and permanently exempts an individual from being remembered as anything other than a murderer. ‘Good blokes’ don’t murder their families. Full stop.

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.

Domestic violences costs the Australian economy $12 billion a year and too many women their lives. Paid domestic violence leave is a life saving policy.

A senior woman told 300 work colleagues the tragic reason domestic violence is close to her heart & why shelters for women and children are needed.

Share the Dignity’s It’s In The Bag initiative is about delivering a package to homeless women and girls on Christmas Day to remind them they matter.

“It is absolutely desperate”: Demand for shelters for women & children escaping domestic violence is huge says Annabelle Daniel, Women’s Community Shelters

The truth about domestic violence. Avril Henry, Jo Cavanagh and Rosemary Calder advised the then PM John Howard on DV and there was momentum.

Why has COAG dropped domestic violence from the agenda? Last year COAG determined it would examine domestic violence leave but dropped it.

Three women killed in NSW in one week by domestic violence is a crisis yet it doesn’t make front page news. If that isn’t a matter of importance what is?