WRITINGS ON VIOLENCE
Examining the impact of violence on our community
HOW MANY MORE FEMICIDES BEFORE WE HIT THE TIPPING POINT?
In less than 72 hours this week, four Australian women were lost to violence. These are the women erased by alleged male violence between March 14 and March 17, 2025.
YVETTE MADE AN IMPOSSIBLE CHOICE
CW: This post discusses the death of an Aboriginal woman. Yvette Hilder did the best she could to live.She was fierce yet fragile. Taylor Hilder remembers her mum as beautiful and gregarious - a woman hopeful for the future but worn down by abuse."My mum had six...
I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WAS MY FAULT
“I always thought it was my fault - that I didn’t do or say the right thing.”She’s an activist, an actor, a fashion icon, a mother ... Jane Fonda is also a survivor of rape and child abuse.She’s an activist, an actor, a fashion icon, a mother ... Jane Fonda is also a...
SHE WENT TO THE SHOPS. SHE NEVER CAME HOME.
They went to the shops. They never came home.It was April 13, 2024. Exactly one year ago today.At 3.10pm, a man walked into the Westfield Shopping Centre at Bondi Junction with a knife. THE VICTIMS & THE HERO By 3.20pm he had murdered young professional Dawn...
❤️HER NAME IS MOLLY TICEHURST! ❤️
“Dear mum, I love you. I miss our holidays together and our tickle fights. You are the best mum in the world.”The little boy who said these words was only six. He is Molly Ticehurst’s son. He was speaking at her funeral last year. MOLLY WILL HAVE BEEN GONE FOR ONE...
When Colleen Rebelo was murdered, media made her a footnote in their stories
Journalists systematically erased Colleen Rebelo in the wake of her femicide. Colleen was murdered in 2020 by her son. He never confessed or admitted to killing her. A judge found he most likely murdered Colleen to claim her insurance payout. He has just been...
‘Good bloke’ Peter Miles was a violent selfish monster
If a "good bloke" is someone who shoots sleeping women and children dead, what on earth does it take to be a bad bloke, asks journalist SHERELE MOODY IN the early hours of May 11, 2018, a “down to earth” “cheerful and chatty” “good bloke” called Peter Miles committed...
She screamed for help. No one came. Now she is dead!
Is this the kind of society that we have become? One where old ladies are of so little value that no one thinks to ring the cops when an elderly woman calls out for help as she is bashed to death by brutal thugs, asks SHERELE MOODY. She screamed for help. People...
The terrifying life and death of Olivia Tung
If we are to end domestic violence, the legal system needs to play its part by coming down harder on perpetrators. Until this happens, you will be reading many more stories about dead women like Olivia Tung, writes journalist SHERELE MOODY. WHY are our courts...
There was so much more to Priscilla Brooten’s life than “American beauty queen”, writes journalist SHERELE MOODY
YOU may have heard of the "American beauty queen" who was allegedly murdered in Queensland. Her name was Priscilla Brooten. She was 46 years old and was living in the Bracken Ridge area of Brisbane when she disappeared in July last year. Just weeks ago, police charged...
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
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