domestic violence

Shocking photos of former advertising executive and art dealer Charles Saatchi with his hands around his celebrity cook wife’s neck have been published all over the world in recent days.

There is never, ever, a good time for a person to kill their partner.

Earlier this year I was one of the many, possibly millions, who couldn’t believe my eyes.

Three women made headlines yesterday; each of them trailblazers, each in the spotlight talking openly about the shackles that could have stifled them.

You may be aware that today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

Dear Prime Minister, While getting ready for work recently, I listened with interest to your address to the White Ribbon Day Breakfast on television.

“We just believe it’s another cost on our economy that will have an impact on our international competitiveness,” Finance Minister Mathias Cormann said in a Sky News interview earlier this week.

A woman was stabbed to death in South Australia yesterday, bringing the total count of women killed in acts of violence in Australia this year to 39, according to Destroy the Joint researchers.

Almost one third of the world’s women have experienced domestic violence, and 38% of women who’re murdered are killed by a current or former partner, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

While Australia has a national conversation on domestic violence, some of the harms of this violence remain in the shadows.