Lady Musgrave Trust

We provide women in need with essential accommodation and services in QLD. The Handy Guide for Older Women is out now.

[Governor of Queensland @QldGovernor]

The Governor hosted a morning tea at Government House in support of patronage organisation The Lady Musgrave Trust, which is Queensland's oldest charity and a champion for homeless women. @Lady_Musgrave

[Lady Musgrave Trust @Lady_Musgrave]

Thank you to all those who attended today both in person and online. We also extend our thanks to each of our speakers and all those who made this event possible. A special mention to our major sponsor the @QldGov and venue sponsor @QUT Centre of Justice.

[Lady Musgrave Trust @Lady_Musgrave]

We need to be comforting children of domestic violence survivors while they are in police stations. We need to be preventing that trauma and providing resources for mums to reduce them from censoring their comments to the police. - Cindy Barden, Creator, Lil Bug Love #HW2022

[Lady Musgrave Trust @Lady_Musgrave]

“The police have a critical part to play in crisis but when we get involved it’s too late. Why do women and children have to leave their homes? Why can’t we move men? We are for the first time in a long time we are collaborating.” - Assistant Commissioner Brian Codd, @QldPolice

[Lady Musgrave Trust @Lady_Musgrave]

Next up! Our second panel for the day will be discussing how we can make Queensland safer for women. 💜#HW2022

[Lady Musgrave Trust @Lady_Musgrave]

👉Most girls we see have no idea that consent can be retracted at any time
👉Most boys struggle with understanding consent as it isn’t modelled at home
👉Most kids are coming to terms with intergenerational violence
⁃Rachael Pascua, Coordinator, R4Respect, @YFSlogan

[Lady Musgrave Trust @Lady_Musgrave]

73% of people we are seeing are disclosing that they are exposed to family violence. - Louise Baker, Young Families Manager, @BrisYthService

[Lady Musgrave Trust @Lady_Musgrave]

Experience of adversity in adolescence changes the brain. The negative behaviours we are talking about today are a response to a decrease in brain health. - Sheryl Batchelor, Founder, Yiliyapinya Indigenous Corporation #HW2022

[Lady Musgrave Trust @Lady_Musgrave]

Offenders are getting bored with #pornography and with the accessibility to exploitive material of children only a few clicks away on the internet it is becoming increasingly prevalent.
- Hilda Sirec, @AusFedPolice

[Lady Musgrave Trust @Lady_Musgrave]

👉 #pornography becomes the loudest voice in the room in the really formative years with no additional information
👉Seeing adult experiences at a much younger age
👉More difficulty naming an experience as sexual violence
- Kerrin Bradfield, Clinical Sexologist #HW2022

[Brat GPT @Brittanieanne_]

Hilda Sirec from @AusFedPolice

👉 We don’t refer to material as child pornography, that shows complacency. A child can not consent to being involved. It’s child abuse material.

👉 Every 7 minutes a webpage shows abuse of a child.

#HW2022

[Brat GPT @Brittanieanne_]

👉There’s a strong link between accessibly of #porn and violence against women.
👉Men usually access porn ~3 years before they enter into a sexual relationship, which educates them about what sex is and shapes their view of women and intimate relationships. #HW2022

[Brat GPT @Brittanieanne_]

Discussing sex, control and homelessness at @Lady_Musgrave annual forum for women and #homelessness today. #HW2022

[Lady Musgrave Trust @Lady_Musgrave]

We saw Hannah’s experience, but we didn’t know that it had a name. Now we know it is coercive control. We wanted to start the conversation, educate on coercive control and make it law. To do this we need to collaborate. - Sue and Lloyd Clarke, Small Steps 4 Hannah.

[Lady Musgrave Trust @Lady_Musgrave]

“We think about women at the centre of the conversation today. Over the last four years we’ve seen a quadrupling of women and children escaping family and domestic violence presenting to housing service centres.” - The Hon. Leeanne Enoch MP

[Lady Musgrave Trust @Lady_Musgrave]

Kicking off our 14th Annual Forum on Women and Homelessness. Thank you to Aunty Kerry Charlton for Welcoming us to Country.

[Lady Musgrave Trust @Lady_Musgrave]

Today is the final day of Domestic and Family Violence Month, but it doesn't mark the end of the work that needs to be done to support Qld women who are doing in tough.

These conversations need to continue to happen all year round.

#DFVPM2022 #EndDFV #notnownotevertogether

[Lady Musgrave Trust @Lady_Musgrave]

The Lady Musgrave Trust Cocktail Party is fast approaching, and with a third of the tickets already sold, now is the time to commit to making a real difference to the nearly 10,000 homeless women in Qld.

Grab your tickets now: https://t.co/NWzUxeGCL1

[Lady Musgrave Trust @Lady_Musgrave]

Earlier this week, Lady Musgrave Trust Board Directors Allison McKelvie and Jenny Clark attended the 'Celebration of Pro Bono at Allens' event.

[Lady Musgrave Trust @Lady_Musgrave]

A staggering 96.8% of women and children seeking out homelessness services are not currently receiving the safe and stable long-term housing they need. It's a frightening, but all too real, statistic.

#DFVPM2022 #EndDFV #notnownotevertogether