WRITINGS ON VIOLENCE

When a man murders a woman, journalists ctrl f on their electronic thesaurus to dredge up every negative word available to slut shame, victim blame, erase, other and turn her into a household object (ie wheelie bin murder).When a famous man from a famous football...

Darwin nurse Katrina Hawker was murdered on September 12, 2020 at Bakewell, NT. Police believed the story he fed them about her ending her own life by overdosing on drugs.Last June, NT Coroner Elisabeth Armitage said it was unlikely Katrina killed herself and referred...

Matthew Kevin Lea-Smith is a serving police officer who is at the centre of at least 17 domestic violence allegations and the suspicious death of his partner.He refused to give evidence at the inquest into Holly Anne Davidson’s death. The NT Police continues to employ...

“Is this an issue of a woman suffering significant domestic violence and her and her children perishing at the hands of the husband? Or is this an instance of a husband being driven too far?”Queensland Police are still defending the victim-blaming comments made in the...

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...

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.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...

❤️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 petrol...

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...

"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...