News & Views UN Women flagship report reveals families hold the key to global gender inequality UN Women released their flagship report Progress of the World’s Women 2019-2020: Families in a Changing World on Tuesday.
News & Views Victims of domestic violence in Australia ten times more likely to experience other legal problems A NSW Law & Justice Foundation report shows domestic violence victims, on average, faced 20 legal problems in the last year compared to 2 for non-victims.
News & Views ‘Real money, concrete support’: Labor pledges $660 million in domestic violence prevention Labor has promised to commit more than $660 million to reducing family violence in Australia.
News & Views In debt, having an affair & murdering his family: Yet people raised their kids having autism. Disturbing details have been revealed at a coronial inquest into the apparent murder suicide of Maria Lutz and her children Elisa and Martin.
News & Views Natalia & Tamara know the dangers of abusive relationships. They both survived & they’re speaking up. Natalia and Tamara both experienced extreme violence in an abusive relationship and they are both speaking publicly about it to create change.
News & Views The saddest map of Australia you will ever see Every heart on the Australian Femicide Map represents a woman or a child lost to violence. The project is run by The Red Heart Campaign’s Sherele Moody.
News & Views Victoria confirms little appetite for lurch to the right In Victoria’s election Labor, under Premier Daniel Andrews, demolished the Liberals securing at least 55 of the 88 available seats.
News & Views Tarang Chawla: How many more women & children need to die before our leaders step up? How many people have to die before our leaders do what so many advocates have said needs to be done to prevent family violence? Tarang Chawla asks.
Ed's Blog Women rarely lie, they can’t ‘just leave’ & leaving won’t always stop the violence: Myths about DV debunked An updated resource for judges in Australia dispels a number of myths about domestic violence that can impede justice and put women at risk.
News & Views A national horror show: Domestic violence death toll continues to rise When four of the five lead stories on a newspaper’s website relate to women being killed in their homes, domestic violence is a crisis.
News & Views ‘Keep calm & slap a bitch’: The actual line a Sydney pub used in an ad “Keep calm and slap a bitch as we approach the finals of this years NRL! Live & Loud every game!” were the actual words Coopers Hotel used on Facebook.
News & Views A gut-wrenching poem by Katrina Miles was published on Facebook in 2014 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.