WRITINGS ON VIOLENCE
Examining the impact of violence on our community
‘REST PEACEFULLY, SWEET LITTLE CHARLIE’
❤️HER NAME IS CHARLIE NOWLAND❤️ There's so many moments in her far-too short life that should break everyone's heart.A little girl who deserved to grow strong and proud reduced to skin and bones, covered in lice and grime, neglected to death while her mother used...
23-YEAR-OLD CREEP TOO ‘YOUNG’ FOR JAIL
Bao Phuc Cao has avoided jail after again for secretly recording photos and videos of women in Melbourne.He was sentenced last year to a community corrections order and a sex offender treatment program - but this past week he was back in court where he pleaded guilty...
ABC HIDES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE OFFENCES
Around the half-way mark of their story on AB - an Iranian refugee - and his actions at Bondi Beach on December 14, journalists Josh Robertson and Maddison Connaughton finally tell you exactly why this guy is going to be deported.He is a domestic violence perp. You...
JESSICA ZRINSKI DEATH SUSPECT DISAPPEARS
Paul Jones has disappeared off the police radar, despite being the last person with Jessica Zrinski. Jessica went missing on November 29, 2022. CCTV captured footage of Jessica in Jones blue Holden Commadore station wagon at Horsley Park and Mount Victoria.The...
MAN BASHES WOMAN WHILE HOLDING BABY
Domestic violence survivor Chloe Wright was forced to flee Australia when the man who repeatedly bashed her was granted bail.Among the injuries he left Chloe with were a broken nose and a fractured cheek bone.Guy Cramp was holding Chloe's new born bub during one...
FOOTBALLER ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CHARGES
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...
SPORTING SUPPORT FOR CONVICTED RAPIST
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...
‘ALL SHE WANTED WAS TO BE LOVED’
❤️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...
SHE MATTERS MURAL COMES TO BALLARAT
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...
WAS THE DV SUICIDE INQUIRY SET UP TO FAIL?
For every one woman killed by a current or former partner in Australia, 10 women will die by suicide after experiencing domestic violence. Suicide rates among female rape and sexual assault victims is also high.In November, the Federal Government established an...
POLICE SCRAP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE UNIT
CW: Contains the name and photo of a murdered Aboriginal woman. A young mum walked into a police station in Queensland last year. She told the officer she was in fear of her life and had nowhere to turn. The officer told her to come back when she had 'evidence it was...
❤️HIS NAME IS OTIS CLUNE!❤️
❤️HIS NAME IS OTIS CLUNE!❤️ 'I like going down to the beach and eating fish and chips with tomato sauce.'How can you read these words and think to yourself, his parents were justified in murdering him and his brother?Otis Clune was a little boy with dreams, ambitions,...