WRITINGS ON VIOLENCE

❤️HER NAME IS MATILDA❤️ She was patting a baby goat.She was having her face painted.She was eating lollies.She was laughing with her sister.Little Matilda was … existing.Shortly after this photo was taken a man ended her life. A GoFundMe for Matilda's mother is...

Police illegally gave the home addresses of domestic and family violence victims to their abusers via a court document process!The Queensland Police Service case management system, called QPRIME, was automatically inserting victim address details into court forms....

Shakira Robertson was last night awarded the Australian Human Rights Commission Young People’s Award.When her mum Jacqui Lee Purton was murdered, Shakira became the sole parent to her little brothers.She’s helping transform Tasmania’s systemic responses to domestic...

This is part of the statement of the woman who was raped twice by Tom Silvagni.She gave her victim impact statement today - his lawyers are pushing for no jail.We need to stand with her - always.“Tom Silvagni you were my friend. Someone I thought I could trust.“You...

Tom Silvagni is the man the legal system bent over backwards to protect - because his family’s reputation was more valuable than the trauma he subjected a woman to when he raped her - twice.The Silvagni family spent hundreds of thousands of dollars employing the best...

A judge told a domestic violence survivor he would let her abuser 'fight it out' with her when she raised concerns about her former partner repeatedly breaching parenting orders for her young son.The woman has lodged a formal complaint with the Chief Justice of the...

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...