Women’s Safety NSW

Women and gender-diverse people have an opportunity to pinpoint safe and unsafe areas in NSW through an interactive mapping project.

We’ve seen the worst year on record on women presenting for help with domestic and family violence. More funding essential.

CEO of Women’s Safety NSW Hayley Foster believes there is an appetite for change in the community when it comes to domestic violence.

Prominent voices in the domestic and family violence space have formed a coalition to push for the criminalisation of coercive control.

Coercive control is a pattern of dominating and controlling behaviour that essentially strips away the victim’s freedoms and sense of self.

Greater Sydney Women’s Safety Charter and Transport for NSW will begin trialing tech to improve the safety of women travelling on public transport at night.

The Women’s Safety Council, co-chaired by Senator Marise Payne and Senator Anne Rushton, decided no new measures will be taken at their last meeting.

The Women’s Safety Council will meet today. If they genuinely want to take strong action, this is what they must do, write Hayley Foster and Renee Carr.

The NSW Government provides crisis accommodation supports to victims of domestic and family violence. But women on temporary visas are unable to access it.

According to Women’s Safety NSW, no measures have been put in place to address the safety of women on temporary visas and their children.

Victims of domestic violence who are occupants, rather than tenants, need some protection too so their choice is not to endure violence or become homeless.