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Sad news - another Australian woman, and her 2 young children, are dead due to domestic violence

30/5/2016

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29 year old Adeline Rigney-Wilson, her 5 year old son and her 6 year old daughter were killed today. Adeline's 30 year old partner, Steven Graham Peet, has been charged with the triple murder. 

​Read the story here.


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Amber Heard granted restraining order against husband Johnny Depp

30/5/2016

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Amber Heard has been granted a restraining order against Johnny Depp who has accused him of domestic violence.
​Read the story here.
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I Know Why Women Don’t 'Just Leave'

30/5/2016

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People are always shaking their heads and asking why women don’t “just leave” when their lover is violent and abusive. I’m going to answer that question in my own way, from my own perspective, because I didn’t leave and I asked myself why too.

Read MHeket's story here. MHeket is an Australian woman with four children
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A 17 year old girl is in an induced coma after her ex-boyfriend 'doused her in lighter fluid and set her alight'

30/5/2016

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A 17-year-old woman is fighting for her life after she was allegedly doused in petrol and set alight in Marsden, south of Brisbane.
The woman suffered serious burns to her legs, arms and torso in the attack, allegedly at the hands of her ex-boyfriend.
Police allege the 17-year-old man used a flammable liquid to burn the woman, following an argument at an Avalon Court residence around 4pm yesterday.
Neighbours heard the girl's screams, before rushing to the property.
"I heard some chick screaming and then police and ambulance rocked up and the fire brigade. They said that she'd been badly burned," witness Jeremy Picken told 9NEWS.
The woman remains in an induced coma at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital.
Her mother has travelled interstate to be by her bedside.
The 17-year-old man will front court on Monday charged with acts intended to cause grievous bodily harm.

From 9news
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Four domestic violence survivors weave their stories together to break the silence about their abuse

29/5/2016

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Coroner finds Jill Meagher’s death was preventable

27/5/2016

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A coroner has found Jill Meagher’s death was preventable because public safety was not prioritised by authorities dealing with dangerous parolees.
The practices at the time — which have since changed — allowed Adrian Bayley to remain free to kill Ms Meagher despite being convicted of violent offences while on parole.

​Read the full story here.

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Court orders failed to protect Fiona from McDermott

26/5/2016

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Fiona Warzywoda was trying to make a new life for herself and her children when Craig McDermott killed her in a busy suburban street - in front of her solicitor's office. She even had an IVO out against him.
impact calls for an inquest into her murder.

​Read the Herald-Sun's story here.
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Intimate partner abuse of the non-physical kind can be easier to excuse but it is just as wounding

26/5/2016

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"At least he didn't hit you."
That was a common refrain to a friend of mine after she finally found the courage, a while ago now, to leave a destructive relationship. Funnily enough, in the thick of it, she thought it would be better if he did. At least then she would've been able to draw a definitive line in the sand. To know when enough was enough. To be yelled at, sworn at and, at the other extreme, ignored on a daily basis is easier to excuse. But just as hard to take.

Read the full article here.

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That's not love

25/5/2016

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Understanding the gray area between love, care and control allows you and the people you care about to recognise relationship abuse before it escalates. 
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A must read about one of the most important legal cases now under way in Australia

24/5/2016

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As a teenage bride, Glyn Scott endured a brutal marriage. Can she bring her husband to justice some 50 years later and create legal history?

​Read the full story here.
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Calling the police on your neighbours should not be a difficult decision

15/5/2016

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Last night was interesting. My girlfriend, sitting outside, heard raised voices from the neighbours. We’ve heard them argue before, so she didn’t think anything of it. Then came what sounded like things getting broken, and a scream. That was a little more unusual, and so she called the cops.

Shortly thereafter, we saw a police officer in there through the window, who left a few minutes later, apparently satisfied. We didn’t hear anything else from the neighbours for the rest of the night.

My girlfriend unequivocally did the right thing. It’s so obvious now that she did. The strange part was that she wasn’t sure that she did. She asked me what I thought before she called, she pre-emptively apologised to the police line operator (who assured her that she did the right thing) and even afterwards had doubts that needed to be quelled before she could go to sleep. After all, what if it was nothing?
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That voice, the one that left my girlfriend wondering if she did the right thing, is only worrying about consequences in the one direction. What if she was wrong and that family goes to court over nothing? It's a fair question, but what of the other one? What if she was right? What if it was a violent incident, and we ignored it? The consequences of one outcome far outweighs the other.
I'm very glad we called. I'm proud of my girlfriend for making the right call. I just wish it hadn't seemed like such a hard decision for both of us.


Read the full story here.

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BREAKING NEWS: High Court has just granted prosecutors special leave to appeal against the controversial downgrading of Gerard Baden-Clay’s murder conviction.

13/5/2016

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The High Court has just granted prosecutors special leave to appeal against the controversial downgrading of Gerard Baden-Clay’s murder conviction.

The ruling, made in Canberra, will see the nation’s highest court examine the case at a hearing in front of five of seven judges within about three months.

Read the full story here.
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Kyle MacDonald's op0inion: Domestic violence is a male problem

12/5/2016

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Kyle MacDonald is an experienced psychotherapist and a New Zealander but the New Zealand experience is very similar to the Australian experience.

Read his opinion piece here.
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Just shocking. Her death was horrendous. Even more shocking is that those allegedly responsible for her death have not been held to account.

10/5/2016

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Lynette Daley was 33.
Lynette was a former schoolgirl athletics champion and the mother of seven children.
Lynette died brutally and in shocking circumstances as a resukt if blunt force genital tract trauma causing horrific internal and external injuries following a violent sex act allegedly performed on her by her boyfriend.
Even more shocking is the fact that those allegedly responsible have not been held to account. 
The NSW DPP's refusal to prosecute is now drawing fierce criticism from several quarters, including legal and criminal law experts, who claim the justice system has grossly failed Ms Daley.


Watch this 4 Corners episode here. 
Read the article from Sydney's ABC here.
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TRIGGER WARNING - both the video and the article are distressing.

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Talk will not do it alone: Money is also needed from the Federal Government and needed now!

9/5/2016

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Australia's domestic and family violence system is stretched to breaking point and the budget fails to replenish its empty coffers.

We are halfway through the 2010 to 2022 National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children, amid unprecedented levels of attention focused on the issue of domestic violence.
But in last Tuesday's budget, the Commonwealth effectively and literally cut money from frontline specialist domestic and family violence service responses, including crisis services, women's and youth refuges.

Read the full story here.

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Survey to shape Victoria's response to family violence

7/5/2016

 
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Monash University is urging professionals across the state to help shape the way Victoria responds to family violence. The University was commissioned by the Victorian Government to review the state's Family Violence Risk Assessment and Risk Management Framework, also known as the common risk assessment framework (CRAF).

​Read the full story here.

May 05th, 2016

6/5/2016

 
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I never expected to be lying in my bed sleeping, when my estranged husband came and shot our two children, Kyle and Latisha, attempted to kill me and committed suicide in front of me....

The most common question I got asked was “what did you do to ‘make’ him do that”?
I figured out a really smart arse answer to that, some 15 years later: “I happened to be breathing, and I think that’s what really pissed him off”.
Blaming victims for the violence inflicted upon them has plagued the discourse around violence against women for too long.
Wearing short skirts or headphones doesn’t cause violence.
Walking alone at night doesn’t cause violence.
And drinking alcohol does not cause violence against women... While alcohol can increase the frequency or severity of violence, on its own it does not explain the gendered dynamics of violence against women.

Read the full story by Ann O’Neill, whose husband shot and killed their two children in 1994, here.


Justice for Kids: – a five-step plan to create a family law system that puts our kids first

6/5/2016

 
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Justice for Kids is about seeing through the cultural and systemic changes needed to protect our kids from violence. 
Women’s Legal Services Australia and Rosie Battie have developed a roadmap for change – a five-step plan to create a family law system that puts our kids first.
  1. Develop a specialist response for domestic violence cases
  2. Support those who are most at risk of future violence
  3. Intervene early and provide effective legal help
  4. Support women and children to financially recover 
  5. Strengthen understanding of all family law professionals on family violence
Now we need to make sure that everyone knows about this plan, especially those who can make the changes needed for a better system. 
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Click here to sign the petition asking all political parties to acknowledge that Justice for Kids is possible.

One woman’s story

6/5/2016

 
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I’M ON THE FLOOR, LYING FACE DOWN. MY MOUTH IS SLIGHTLY OPEN AND I CAN FEEL THE CARPET AGAINST MY TEETH. I DON’T CARE. A WHILE AGO I WAS TREMBLING UNCONTROLLABLY, MY FISTS CLENCHED AS I SOBBED UNTIL THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT. NOW I’M HERE, AT THE OTHER END OF PANIC AND FEAR, WHERE I WAIT UNTIL I CAN GET UP AND FIX THINGS. IT’S TAKING LONGER THAN USUAL THIS TIME…

Read this woman's full story here

Domestic violence survivor Rebeca Carro fears that Federal funding cuts will cost women’s lives

4/5/2016

 
More than 100 organisations are jointly calling for the Federal Government to “make good on its commitment to address domestic violence” by fully funding services in Tuesday’s Federal Budget.
There are concerns that the government’s new family violence prevention campaign, including a confronting television advert that went to air last month, could prompt more victims to seek help, only to be turned away.
Domestic Violence Victoria chief executive Fiona McCormack said women were at “increased risk of violence and other retaliation” at the time when they reached out for help to escape an abusive relationship, making frontline services critical.
Renee Carr, executive director of Fair Agenda, said while it was great to see the government investing in awareness raising, “to do so without funding the services women need now is dangerous”.
“The more we raise awareness of family violence, the more women reach out to services for help,” said Rosslyn Monro, chairwoman of the National Association of Australia Community Legal Centres.
“But services are not sufficiently funded to keep up with current levels of demand, let alone increased demand ... We’re being forced to turn away thousands of women relying on our service.”

Read the full story here.

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