PVAW WA

Grass roots volunteers advocating in the movement to Prevent Violence Against Women.

[Tarang / तरंग (he/him) @tarang_chawla]

When Pauline Hanson says DV is a "two-way street" she is deliberately spreading dangerous misinformation. DV is not an argument between 2 equal people. It is about power and control. Her words place doubt where responsibility should be and judgement where compassion should be.

[Sherele Moody (Femicide Researcher) 🌈 @ShereleMoody]

Pauline Hanson - whose own son is a domestic violence perpetrator - has declared domestic violence is a ‘two-way street’ and that women are responsible for their own safety. Instead of saying men are responsible for their decisions to be violent.
For the record, we have lost 38 women to violence this year and 27 of them were killed by domestic violence perpetrators, including eight mothers murdered by their sons.
"It is wrong, but it’s also a two-way street," she told 4BC.
"I’m not saying that it’s just men, women can lose their cool as well.
"Society is under so much pressure.
"Domestic violence is a scourge but look - I’ve been through it myself in my life." "And I just feel if you’re not in a house where you feel safe, Then you shouldn’t put up with it.
"If these women are getting abused by men out there, then don’t put up with it.

[Kon Karapanagiotidis @Kon__K]

If you had an Australian dying every 66 hours from a shark attack, strawberries or one punch the nation would be up in arms.

Well we’ve had a woman killed every 66 hours since Oct 3 in Australia and yet how is adequate Federal funding of #DV services still not an election issue?

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

How the fuck do we live in a world where women all over England have been quietly dreading today for weeks because if the sportsball men lose they do too, and nobody in power gives a tiny flying shit?

#NewsCorpse
#England

[Dr Sheep Person Podge @noplaceforsheep]

Do you think you could pay as much attention to murdered women & children in Australia as you do to Zionist feelings, @AlboMP?

[pinkleftygirl @pinkleftygirl]

It’s not child marriages but girl child marriages. Women aren’t marrying little boys. It’s men all over the world chasing or marrying literal girl children

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

The Sanewashing of Hanson Is at Its Peak.
This is how Trump came to power: platform the lies, skip the follow-up, let the headlines call it “proving her critics wrong.”
We are all watching it happen in real time.
At the National Press Club, Pauline Hanson said the following. Not one claim was challenged by the so called journalists in attendance and she continues to be unchallenged on the facts in every interview she sits.
-1. Unlike the Prime Minister, I welcome scrutiny.” Hypocritical. In the same speech she announced she refuses ABC interviews, will scrap the SBS, & will make the ABC subscription-only. The event allowed 2 hours; standard format gives 25–30 mins for the address. She spoke for 50-halving the time left for questions. When Guardian journalist Sarah Martin used that remaining time to ask about her daughter's $150,000 taxpayer-funded advisor role, Hanson called her “a trashy journalist” and banned her from all future press conferences.
• “Babies are aborted the day before birth.” Fabricated. Late-term abortion is highly restricted, requires medical approval, and occurs only in genuine medical emergencies.
• “Interest rates are heading towards 10%.” False. RBA cash rate: 4.35%. Forecast to fall, not rise.
• “There’s no gender pay gap — just women taking time off.” False. WGEA confirms the gap exists at equal hours, equal roles, regardless of career breaks.
• “$30B a year on Indigenous programs.” False. Only 18% (~$5.6B) is Indigenous-specific. The rest is the Indigenous share of mainstream services every Australian uses.
• Transgender people were compared to “militant Islam.” False and dangerous. ABS data: transgender and gender-diverse Australians make up 1% of the pop’n. There’s no body of research showing transgender ppl commit crime at elevated rates-in fact it shows transgender people are dramatically more likely to be victims of violence— assault, sexual violence, and homicide rates against trans people are well above general population rates in most studies (US, UK, and Aust data all show this pattern)
• “23% of Australians can’t speak English.” False. That 23% speak another language at home — most are bilingual. Limited English proficiency: just 3.2%.
• “The CEFC has had $200 billion.” False by a factor of six. Actual legislated capacity: $33 billion.
• “I care about the homeless and hungry.” Hypocritical. In the same speech, she backed cuts to Indigenous-specific funding — despite Aboriginal homelessness running up to 10 times higher than the non-Indigenous rate.
• $90 billion in cuts, no plan. ~$35 billion of it remains unaccounted for. No modelling.
• “I support worker rights.” False. Voted against minimum wage increases, penalty rates, criminalising wage theft, casual conversion rights, same job same pay, and the right to disconnect. Took a $100,000 pay rise while voting against a tax break for low-paid workers
• Called Australian workers “lazy.” She has attended just 12% of Senate estimates since 2016 & 53% of parliamentary votes. Paid over $200k a year
• Labor have let immigration get out of control.” False. Net overseas migration has fallen every year since the post-COVID peak in 2022-23 — 538,000 → 446,000 → 306,000 in 2024-25. She also recycled a 26-year-old ABS pop’n projection as a fresh “next 50 years” forecast

Said: This beautiful country belongs to all Australians born here and those who have joined us”- in her opening line; then spent the next 50 minutes demanding a monocultural society, comparing transgender Australians to militant Islam, inflating migration and language figures, denying the gender pay gap, and repeating the debunked $30 billion Indigenous funding myth. Welcomed everyone in the first sentence. Spent the rest of the speech defining most of them out — and offered no plan to fix anything she raised, only $90 billion in cuts.
Not one follow-up question. No source data on a single figure in the entire speech. This is what unchallenged looks like.
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[PVAW WA @PVAW_WA]

@RonniSalt @Sunny_Mezz @TracyWesterman is a national treasure - wise, intelligent and innovative!! Moves the talkers out of the way for the doers.

[Hon. Rona Ambrose Veitch @RonaAmbrose]

When I fought for 5 years to make it mandatory for judges in Canada to take sexual assault law training, this is what I hoped for. All rape cases should be presided over w this level of awareness. An inspiring judge. Wish they were all like this.

[💧Michael West @MichaelWestBiz]

"Financial abuse operates with the same invisibility and the same lethality."
It begins with coercive control, financial abuse, even before a punch is thrown.

Part 2 in domestic violence series by Andrew Brown.
https://t.co/ML98d7TI7n

[Vicki Johnson @VickiJo28765736]

@RonniSalt @aaronsmith "The pack was large. Phil Coorey and Paul Sakkal stood at the back catching up, two men whose analysis has, by careful and prolonged effort, achieved the difficult feat of describing Australian politics without illuminating any of it."
👏👏👏

[Thought Provoking Berserker ⚛️🦍🦅 @Provokethoughtz]

Women: I want to go for a run.

Society: You can't go alone. You'll get raped.

Women: I want to walk to my car in the parking garage.

Society: Alone? You better get someone to escort you, or you'll get raped.

Women: I want to live alone.

Society: You need a gun, an alarm system, a dog and probably a gun for the dog too.

Women: What about going to the park?

Society: Dangerous.

Women: Okay, I'll just go out for a drink then.

Society: Don't take your eyes off your drink. Watch out for predators spiking your drinks. Stay alert at all times.

Women: I was raped.

Society: Are you sure? That just seems impossible.

[Louise Greene @GreeneLouiseAus]

I am absolutely fed up with the relentless targeting of Grace Tame.

Let's be clear. There is a difference between fair criticism and a public pile-on. What we keep seeing directed at Grace is not constructive debate. It is constant scrutiny, personal attacks, outrage cycles and a level of judgment that seems reserved for women who dare to speak too loudly, too honestly or too unapologetically.

Grace Tame survived child sexual abuse. She helped change laws. She gave a voice to countless survivors. She has spent years doing work that most people would never have the courage to do.

Yet the attacks never seem to stop.

A few weeks ago it was the Prime Minister taking aim at her. Now it's Charlie Pickering. Before that, countless commentators, columnists and social media critics. Different names, same pattern.

And frankly, it disgusts me.

No, women in public life should not be immune from criticism. Nobody is. But there is a world of difference between criticism and the kind of sustained public hounding that seeks to diminish, discredit and exhaust someone.

As someone who has experienced public judgment and media attacks, I know how destructive these campaigns can be. They reduce human beings to caricatures. They erase context. They encourage outrage while ignoring the very real emotional toll on the person at the centre of it.

What troubles me most is that women who survive violence are so often expected to be perfect. The moment they become angry, outspoken, political, imperfect or inconvenient, they are treated as fair game.

Grace Tame has contributed more to the conversation about sexual abuse and survivor advocacy in this country than most of her critics ever will.

Maybe it's time some of the men lining up to take shots at her stopped and asked themselves a simple question:

Why are they spending so much energy attacking a survivor instead of supporting the change she helped create?

Enough. #gracetame #charliepickering

[Dr Sheep Person Podge @noplaceforsheep]

$600 million to Jewish organisations in 2026 budget for security & mental health resources…

$308.6 million to support services & ending gender-based violence, over FIVE YEARS, in 2026 budget.

[Dr Sheep Person Podge @noplaceforsheep]

Why are Australian women not as entitled to a RC into femicide as Australian Jews are to a RC into antisemitism?

And I mean a RC whose recommendations the government responds to as urgently as it responded to the slaughter of 13 Jews in Bondi.

And why don"t Australian women & children have a Special Envoy to monitor & advise government on the murderous, catastrophic violence against us?

@AlboMP
@SenKatyG
@DavidShoebridge

[Dr Sheep Person Podge @noplaceforsheep]

29 women & 9 children have been slaughtered in Australia this year in domestic violence events.

@AlboMP - no action.

13 Jews slaughtered in a single terrorist event

@AlboMP - RC, millions $, public ceremonies, urgent legislation, visit from president of Israel, repeated public condemnation of antisemitism, repeated public & financial support for bereaved families…

This should make everyone very, very angry.

[Dr Sheep Person Podge @noplaceforsheep]

We are having this hideous hoo haa about 4 women & 9 children coming home from Syrian camps, yet we’re absolutely silent about Australians who participated in the IDF genocide in Gaza coming back & roaming free.

This is insane.

[Tired Peasant @HorrorGorl]

Police don’t prevent crime. They show up after it happens. Crime prevention starts with funding social programs and creating opportunity.

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

How the fuck do we live in a world where the media tell women to cover their drinks, watch what they wear and learn self defence to avoid being sexually assaulted by men yet that same media is SILENT about all the women drugged and raped while unconscious by their own fucking husbands?

#NewsCorpse

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

The “grab them by the pussy” comment didn’t make you think? The mocking of a disabled journalist? The January 6 coup, which he was CLEARLY responsible for and lied about? The stock market manipulations? Crypto scams? Mocking women journalists with relish at every opportunity? Defunding important government departments and lying about why? Refusing to divest his businesses? Openly giving his children nepotistic positions in his inner circle? The rape allegations? The rape PROSECUTION? The 34 convictions? The rampant, unrepentant fraud? Stealing secret government documents and refusing to return them? Lying about COVID? Lying about Biden? Lying about Harris, and mocking her race?

Nah, you didn’t believe him because he was believable, you believed him because you desperately WANTED to believe him, because he vindicated your racism and your hatred. Because you gloried in his lies as long as they weren’t directed at you. And if you’re a qualified journalist, that makes your lack of research, common sense and basic decency even worse. FAR worse.

All those Americans now trying to justify their belief in a conman, criminal, racist pedophile rapist are cooked. You people disgust us. There’s no excuse and no way the rest of the world will ever forgive you. FFS.