WRITINGS ON VIOLENCE

A former footballer and prominent business owner is charged with assaulting his ex-partner.Shaun Patrick Edwards faced a court on February 27, charged with aggravated assault and choking, strangling or suffocating.He is also the subject of a domestic violence...

Jaiden Fidge is one of two men who raped a 14-year-old girl in 2024.Fidge and Riley Glenn Smith - both regional footballers - tricked the teenager into leaving a party so they could assault her.Fidge and Smith faced Geelong County Court this week for a sentencing...

❤️HER NAME IS KELLY WILKINSON❤️ Every femicide I document shows at least one point where she could have been saved. More often than not that critical moment is when a victim seeks help from police, but they are turned away. The domestic violence femicide of Kelly...

On a rainy day in Ballarat this week, the community joined forces to create a tribute to more than 200 women lost to violence, including Ballarat region women Samantha Murphy, Rebecca Young, Hannah McGuire, Kobie Parfitt, Kathleen Severino, Nina Nicholson, Tracey...

❤️HIS NAME IS CADEN CASE!❤️ Three-year-old Caden Case died in the foyer of a police station following a vehicle incident at Stapylton, Qld, on October 25 last year.Caden’s parents have both been charged over his death.Caden is the 27th Australian child lost to...

❤️HER NAME IS ELIZABETH PEARCE❤️ An angry volatile controlling man. A high-powered car. It's a deadly combination we don't often talk about - until it is too late.Her name is Elizabeth Pearce. She was killed by a man she had never met - Rhys Bellinge - on February 15,...

❤️HER NAME IS MARY BENEDITO❤️ "Women are still dying. Women are still faced with so much trauma and hurt and pain because of men who have not fixed themselves."Josiah Benedito-Taotafa spoke these words outside of court this week, not long after his cousin's killer was...

Pauline Hanson's One Nation rehired convicted rapist Sean Black to run its federal election campaign last year.Black was sentenced to five years' jail for the 2007 rape and assault of his former wife. He worked for One Nation at the time.When Black was release from...

The man who murdered 26-year-old Jody Galante is on the verge of leaving prison and plans to live in the South West Rocks or Port Macquarie area of NSW.Mark Galante has been on work release from the prison in Cessnock. He told locals in the area he is due to leave...

At the Coburg Giants, you can demean a woman and still coach the female basketball team.David Pearson repeatedly harassed a female player, pushing her to the point of having to make a formal complaint about his behaviour.The harassment included sexual innuendo,...

❤️HER NAME IS: VICKI CLEARY!❤️ Elizabeth Cleary was just 14 when her adored big sister Vicki Cleary was murdered.Vicki was killed by her former partner Peter Keogh in Coburg, Victoria, on August 26, 1987. She was only 25.Keogh waited for Vicki to arrive at her...

Every now and then I look back on this article by Ron Liddle and ask myself, how the fuck is he still a working journalist?In 2003, he argued men should be able to consume child sexual exploitation material because the viewer is not the one harming the child.He seems...