WRITINGS ON VIOLENCE

This video should have been the end of Joe Rogan.In it he discusses watching a 15-year-old girl in so-called 'adult films'.He admitted to watching child sexual exploitation content when he appeared on Comedy Central in the early 2000s. The video has since been removed...

This week, about 15 women will die by suicide. More than half will have experienced intimate partner violence in the lead-up to their deaths.These are the forgotten women - the victims of Australia's femicide epidemic whose stories you will rarely hear, whose names...

When a woman posted about teacher Daniel Marriott being charged with recklessly inflicting grievous bodily harm, he sent her messages threatening to sue her because she dared to mention his upcoming court case.Unluckily for Daniel, the messages are now in my...

Somehow, she is still alive.Victoria - a 26-year-old mum to two children - suffered life-changing critical injuries in a brutal and horrendous act of male-perpetrated domestic violence on the weekend.NSW Police had to taser her partner after he refused to stop the car...

The Seventh-day Adventist Church claims 'the safety, dignity and wellbeing of all individuals is of the utmost importance' and yet …. a convicted domestic violence perpetrator and accused rapist has just been organised as a church minister.Mathew Murray Harrison...

❤️HIS NAME IS ROWAN ROOME!❤️"He might have grown up to be extraordinary."Just days after her son's murder, Dr Sophie Roome received a letter penned by her former husband. In it he outlined his plan to end her son's life and his own.Rowan Roome was killed by his father...

Queensland surgeon Vahid Reza Adib has been charged with three counts of rape, two counts of deprivation of liberty and one count of sexual assault. He has been released on bail.Adib is accused of violating a woman at a home in Burleigh Heads on March 30. He is facing...

❤️HER NAME IS KUMANJAYI LITTLE BABY!❤️ *Photo used with family permission! For days, we held our collective breath, waiting for five-year-old Kumanjayi Little Baby to come home to her mum and her brother Ramsiah. You can help me get a Royal Commission into the Killing...

Russell Brand has always shown us who he is - a powerful man in the entertainment industry who exploits women.He's even joked about rape and murder without any qualm of being held to account.In 2013, interviewer Richard Herring laughed along as Russell Brand said he...

❤️HER NAME IS SANDRA PENIAMINA! ❤️ She armed herself with a knife when he started bashing her. He cut his hand on that knife. Despite the abuse, the horrendous injuries he inflicted on her using a concrete bollard and a knife and the fear she faced in her final...

Right now we're watching a masterclass in how bad men manipulate the public narrative around their abusive behaviour.The PR machine revs up. There's emotive engagement with sympathetic interviewers. Tears. Sudden insight into bad actions. Claims of 'beyond my control'...

The owner of Fyre Bar & Restaurant in Perth made an appalling 'gang rape' reference in an Instagram post to promo the weekend's opening hours.“Everybody is coming on Friday, oh my God, we’re going to get gang raped on Friday,” John Mountain said.“Saturday is...