COPS TOLD ABUSERS WHERE VICTIMS LIVED

COPS TOLD ABUSERS WHERE VICTIMS LIVED

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....
YOUR MUM WOULD BE PROUD, SHAKIRA

YOUR MUM WOULD BE PROUD, SHAKIRA

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...
THE RAPIST THEY TRIED TO HIDE AND PROTECT

THE RAPIST THEY TRIED TO HIDE AND PROTECT

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...
‘SEND YOU TO THE PARK TO FIGHT IT OUT’

‘SEND YOU TO THE PARK TO FIGHT IT OUT’

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...
MEDIA CREATED SYMPATHY FOR A RAPIST

MEDIA CREATED SYMPATHY FOR A RAPIST

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...