In December 2017, Charles McKenzie Ross Evans struck down his fiancée, Alicia Little, at a rural property near Kyneton in central Victoria. After crushing Little between a water tank under the tyres o…
24 women have now been violently killed this year in Australia
Twenty four. In 2019, 24 women have been violently killed in Australia. We know this because of the difficult work of the Counting Dead Women Australia researchers of Destroy The Joint. They keep a re…
Why it’s time to examine our fascination with women being murdered
On Tuesday The Herald Sun ran with the headline, “Party Twist” when reporting on the police investigation into the death of Courtney Herron. The internet has been quick to express its anger over the w…
Remembering Natalina Angok: Why every murdered woman warrants the same attention and same public grief
When Eurydice Dixon was murdered streets were flooded with vigils, protests and mourning by a nation. Yet last week, news of the brutal murder of Natalina Angok was met with silence. Where was the com…
Karen Ristevski was killed by her husband.
On Wednesday afternoon, a few hours after the eyes of Australia were transfixed on another Melbourne courtroom for the historic sentencing of George Pell, Borce Ristevski pleaded guilty to the manslau…
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-…
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…
