If you don’t follow Shirleen, you should. An incredible grassroots advocate from the NT working with Tangentyere Women’s Family Safety Group. #DFSV

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An important clarification from Jess Hill on this piece by Jacqueline Maley.

This is why I say, that once coercive control laws start to take effect, we will likely see a whole different cohort of abuser emerge into the visibility of the criminal system. Our current, incident…

'When you're walking with people in life, you've got to walk beside people who are traumatised, you don't walk in front and drag them, and you don't walk behind and push. You walk beside them,' - Cheryl Kickett-Tucker, Koya Aboriginal Corp.

How perfectly said.

How to help a…

‘Under-funded shelters and crisis support programs run by Aboriginal women have been described as 'homicide prevention', and they're often left shattered when the young mothers they care for end up murdered.’

Once again - shelters & crisis support are homicide prevention.

Thank…

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How does mental health, trauma and substance use affect gender-based violence? Can addressing it help prevent violence?
Dr Siobhan O'Dean, PhD., Dr @lucygrummitt and Dr Dr Steph Kershaw share what the research says in the @ConversationEDI.
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'Violence [is] functional - and that was why they used it.' And that's why many, and yes 'not all' men, use forms of violence and control, even if they aren't ever going to murder their partner.

So are we going to take an important discussion about preventing men's violence against women and go back to pretending there's a tiny group of monstrous murderous men entirely different from the blameless majority? #ViolenceAgainstWomen #sexualviolence 1/3

‘I am one of countless people across Australia working in unfunded, grassroots organisations providing frontline support to people who have been impacted by gendered violence. There are thousands of us.’

And once more, and louder:

THIS is VIOLENCE PREVENTION work. #DFSV #MVAW

Agree wholeheartedly Kristine Ziwica - it’s a forensic analysis of some of the levers and blockers by Laura Tingle #DFSV

My friend & colleague Tanya Whitehouse OAM🌈 coming in with some truthbombs from the frontline. The level of demand is extraordinary. The local shelter she referred to is the Women's Community Shelters Blue Wren House - Camden Women’s Shelter, which receives a staggering NINE requests for help for every…

Some excellent commentary here from Delia Donovan DomesticViolenceNSW Antoinette Braybrook AM. YES & some brave words from Berry Street CEO Jenny McNaughton about the level of demand for #DFV services.

Every time we raise awareness about domestic & family violence, women raise their hands for help.…

Wait till we tell you that Australia routinely exempts abusive parents from paying Child Support…

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#DFV #FinancialAbuse #CoerciveControl

For anyone looking on some very wise words on why men are abusive, Lundy Bancroft’s work remains unparalleled in its relevance and accuracy. I buy multiple copies of ‘Why Does He Do That?’ to give away & put in our shelters - everyone interested in #DFV #CoerciveControl should…

Alcohol regulation reduces domestic violence.

In Alice Springs, the number of domestic violence assaults fell 37% since the introduction of alcohol restrictions, translating to around 70 fewer domestic violence assaults in Alice Springs per month. intouchpublichealth.net.au/data-shows-imp…

Wonderful to see that some of the suggestion I put to the Ministerial Roundtable on Wednesday, including ‘meanwhile use’ of existing under-utilised properties, will be on the table as part of the NSW Emergency Response package for domestic and family violence #DFV …

Tonight the local Victorian DV crisis service has 200 women in motel rooms because not enough refuge beds! A refuge has legal& therapeutic support etc. A motel doesn’t.

My thread below this tweet in response to this oft-asked question.

The TLDR? Ask a professional #DFV service and we’ll tell you why.