Transphobes constantly attack me as a lawyer. Just because I’m trans I must not be able to do my job. That’s textbook bigotry. I also know they have no argument when they resort to that attack.

Just because someone is trans doesn’t mean they can’t be a professional. Trans…

I'm in the The Sydney Morning Herald today making the point that talking about violence, and telling boys and men to change, is not a prevention strategy. Government needs to take action at the level of policy and regulation. smh.com.au/politics/feder…

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

With this weekend's protests against male violence in Australia, I thought I'd re-promote this essay that argues that the state tolerates violence against women as part of the social contract it has made with men. As well as the state's own fear of men.
grantwyeth.com/p/domestic-vio…

Yesterday, Australian women protested the ongoing slaughter of our sisters by men. Today, another woman has been murdered - allegedly at the hands of a male. Homicide detectives are interviewing a son over the killing of his mother at Yangebup in Western Australian. She is the…

Child Protection Supervisor: Since we started focusing more on fathers who are domestic violence perpetrators, we've stopped forcing survivors into refuge.

Me: Why?

Child Protection Supervisor: We've shifted our focus off of mom's choices to dad's. We are getting more…

My newly released book 'Stop Blaming Mothers and Ignoring Fathers: How to transform the way we keep children safe from domestic violence' includes a chapter on the myth of the domestic violence incident which says we need to stop building all our responses to domestic violence…

David Mandel Safe & Together Institute I’ve seen you briefly in online presentations. You seem like a person just trying to help those you encounter on ground-level, and very practical-minded. I’m not very surprised to see you post a balanced and nuanced message like this. I have reservations about ideological people

Pet murder as retaliation and punishment for you exercising your right to disassociate yourself from him.

The govt urgently needs to change its messaging. Ppl are fed up hearing that ending gendered violence is ‘everyone’s responsibility’, & that no single govt or institution can fix it. No, you can’t fix it unilaterally. But if it’s everyone’s responsibility, who is accountable?

Just listening to news show about land trauma experienced by Black Americans through slavery, sharecropping, land stealing and more. Such an important perspective to have on the impact of structural racism that continues through today

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Low standards for men as parents is one of the main issues that impedes accountable for perpetrators in family court, child protection and other arenas. And the flip side, high expectations for women as parents, leads to false and unfair allegations of parental alienation and…

The role of Men in finding solutions is important when we talk about violence

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