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...
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...
❤️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 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...
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...