This morning I joined Professor Anne Summers on ABC Radio National to call for immediate action to address the national shame of men’s violence against women across our country. Listen here ➡️ abc.net.au/listen/program… Djirra 1/7

'If you don't know those things, just shut up and read. Stop talking.'

Please read this, from one of the best columnists in the country, on stopping women being killed by their partners and ex-partners.

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Recent alleged killings have raised significant questions about the effectiveness of intervention orders to prevent repeat victimisation & escalation of violence.

Between July 2022 - June 2023 Victoria Police recorded 57,097 family violence incidents involving a breach of an…

We won’t stop violence against women with ’conversations about respect’. This is not working. We need to get real theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

60% of single mothers have escaped domestic abuse.
Even after they leave, our systems make it almost impossible for them to be safe. We need to reform our systems – from family law to child support & child protection. Jess Hill

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In The Age today: Christine Nixon & I argue all too often perpetrators are cast in the shadows in responses to family violence. Improving victim-survivor safety is the priority. To achieve this we must cast a spotlight on the perpetrator, particularly those who commit multiple…

It should be a huge media story today that the family of a woman allegedly killed in Cobram on Tuesday were so scared of what the media might do to her in print they first released information to a relatively small anonymous activist group - MFW - instead of to that same media.…

We have received family permission today to post this statement from Emma Bates’s family, and provide a recent picture of her:

“Emma was a much loved member of our family. She was the 4th of 7 children. Emma spent her entire life dealing with health issues. She was a type one…

Sounds pretty fair to me.

It took Rupert Murdoch 6 hours to start attacking an amazing woman just because she’s inclusive, kind, hugely intelligent, and has been given one of the highest-profile jobs in the country by a Labor PM.

Is this some kind of record in hatred and misogyny, even for #NewsCorpse ?

Well, here's a thing, we just got our new rates bill through from our local authority, nearly £2500 and we live in a tiny 2 bedroom rented apartment in Eastbourne, you can see this for yourself in the attached picture, then we find out that the Royal Family only pay £1800 for…

Squatting, kidnapping and collaboration: Australia’s first women’s shelters were acts of radical grassroots feminism theconversation.com/squatting-kidn…

In 2021-22, 641,500 Australian women had their movements tracked by an ex-partner. The smartphone and other technologies are new weapons in the arsenal of #domesticviolence perpetrators, writes UTS Business School Professor Anne Summers.

Anne Summers thank you soo much for Sat Paper article! 🙏🏼 linking the herstory of how we saw DV back then to the very different picture of how men perpetrate it today with tech 😖😠, is the stuff I have most wanted to share with people.

I’d love to hear it read as an audio too.

The fastest growing form of abuse in Australia is the cyberstalking and control of current and former partners using technology, including tracking devices in toys. From Anne Summers

thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2024/03/1… via The Saturday Paper

Leanne Barron from Starick talking about how refuge system has changed #Elsie “Govt sets the agenda and then we compete for the contracts to deliver that. And that affects innovation.”

In 1975 Bobbie Townsend arrived at #Elsie with two kids and not much else. “The first feeling was relief and safety. And then I realised I was surrounded by all these warm, radical women — and what an eye opener that was”.

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“The murder rate is accelerating at a rate we have not seen for decades” says Anne Summers #Elsie “I hope we can understand more about the monster we are confronting — and I hope this will lead us to rethink our approach. While gender equality is essential, it is not enough.”

I am looking forward to speaking on a panel at the ‘Elsie Conference - Celebrating 50 Years of Women’s Refuges in Australia’ this Friday 15th March, at 4.00pm - 5.30pm, UTS Sydney Djirra Anne Summers #Elsie #AboriginalWomensLivesMatter #wehavethesolutions 1/4