WRITINGS ON VIOLENCE
Examining the impact of violence on our community
KIARA WAS TREATED AS A FOOTNOTE IN THE SYSTEM
CW: CONTAINS THE NAME & PHOTO OF A MURDERED ABORIGINAL WOMAN Adam Winmar’s abuse of Kiara Ferguson was brutal and ongoing. When Winmar’s homemade gun killed Kiara in April of 2023, the context of his domestic violence attacks on the 27-year-old barely influenced...
THEY TURNED THEIR PAINTINGS TO THE WALL
One day in October of 2024, I saw a poster for a missing woman stuck to a pole in Smith Street, Collingwood."I hope she comes home safe - I don't want to add her to my projects," I said to my partner as we read her name and looked at her photo.A month or so later, I...
FEMICIDE IS NOT A CRIME IN AUSTRALIA!
Femicide is not a crime in Australia.No Australian jurisdiction recognises femicide as a crime, meaning there's no specific sentencing or other legal responses to gendered violence against women.Italy's parliament has just approved a law that introduces the act of...
I DIDN’T KNOW HER, YET I MOURN HER
❤️HER NAME IS SANDRA DOROTHY BACON!❤️ I mourn a child I never knew.Her name is Sandra Dorothy Bacon. Sandra was raped, abducted and murdered in Townsville, Qld, exactly 63 years ago today (November 24). She was only five years old.The man who killed her would go on to...
HE SET HER ON FIRE – SHE’S FIGHTING BACK!
He set Destiny Otton-Rakuraku on fire just over 11 months ago.Destiny refused to let him erase her life - or her future.The 34-year-old single mum from was critically injured in January this year when her former partner Renata Edward Manning doused Destiny in petrol...
‘LEAVE IT UNTIL WE GET OUT OF HERE’
CW: CONTAINS THE NAME AND PHOTO OF A MURDERED ABORIGINAL WOMAN‘I don’t want you to say something that means we’re going to have to start taking some action in relation to domestic violence. If you are going to say anything, leave it until we get out of here.’ This is...
❤️HER NAME IS HOLLY ANNE DAVIDSON!❤️
"He tells me he believes he will kill me. That that is how it will end."She wrote these words on June 31, 2019. Nine months later she was dead.Her name is Holly Anne Davidson. She was only 38.She passed away on March 5, 2020 in Royal Darwin Hospital after suffering a...
NOTHING HAS CHANGED EXCEPT THE DEATH TOLL
Since Hannah Clarke's murder, 431 women have been killed. In every one of these cases, there were points when each woman could have been saved.The Guardian’s investigation into police failures before and after the murders of Hannah and her children Aaliyah, Laianah...
‘UNLIKE THE ACCUSED, HANNAH MATTERED’
Lachlan Young murdered Hannah McGuire on April 5, 2024, at Sebastopol, Victoria. She was only 23.Young has just been sentenced to 28 years in prison.Hannah had chosen to leave Young and to live her life on her own terms and free from his abuse and control.He killed...
THREE YEARS! THAT’S ALL THEY SAY SHE IS WORTH
It beggars belief that a judge can decide a woman’s life is worth so little.Rene Latimore’s killer will be eligible for parole after serving three years.THREE YEARS!The 17-year-old male killed Rene on August 9, 2021, near Mackay in Queensland. She was only 31 and a...
HOW MANY MORE MOLLY’S MUST WE LOSE?
The man who killed Molly Ticehurst has pleaded guilty to her domestic violence homicide and other offences, meaning her family is one step closer to the end of the court process - but a world away from any kind of peace.Not long before he killed her, Molly reported to...
THIS IS NOT JUSTICE! IT’S A JOKE
Her name is Courtney Herron. She was only 25. Henry Richard Hammond killed Courtney in Royal Park, Parkville, on May 25, 2019.
CREDITS
RESEARCH & REPORTING:
Sherele Moody - Twitter: @sherelemoody
Patreon - www.patreon.com/sherelemoody
ARTWORK:
Amani Haydar - www.bluethumb.com.au/amani-haydar
DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT:
Digital Nomads HQ - www.digitalnomadshq.com.au
VOLUNTEER SUPPORT CREW:
Katherine Benson, Liesl Wharton, Michelle Ekin, Vicky Burn, Trisha McFadyen
CONTACT
sherele@australianfemicidewatch.org