“To save his marriage he promised his wife he would never be in the same room as the student again..” 👇
Chris Edmond blocked an ex-girlfriend’s career for a decade in a case of ‘serious miscondcut’ https://t.co/EfLh6wuMkr
❤️SHE MATTERS: SIVA AUVAE!❤️
For the 71st time this year, I am writing about a woman killed.
Last night mum-of-four Siva Auvae was at her home in Kallangur, Qld. Her partner stabbed her repeatedly. She ran for help but died in the street. He set her home on fire. He died this morning from injuries sustained in the blaze.
Siva is the 71st Australian woman killed this year and the third woman killed in the past 10 days.
Born on Christmas Day, Siva was just a little over two weeks from her 32nd birthday.
Her youngest child is not yet one.
Siva was a much-loved mum, sister, daughter, friend and member of the Australian-New Zealand community.
Like so many of the women killed over the past 11.5 months, her life was stolen by a male known to her - another victim of Australia's femicide epidemic.
RIP SIVA AUVAE! ❤️
❤️The Memorial to Women and Children Lost to Violence: https://t.co/QJ2OuxMB8C
❤️The Australian Femicide & Child Death Map: https://t.co/HUEd7YnyWr
I document ALL unlawful deaths of women and children, regardless of perpetrator gender or relationship between the person killed and the accused. This means not every death is due to domestic and family violence. Australians are also killed by strangers, friends, colleagues, neighbours and other people known to them.
IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW NEEDS HELP PLEASE CALL:
❤️1800 Respect National Helpline: 1800 737 732
❤️Women's Crisis Line: 1800 811 811
❤️Men's Referral Service: 1300 766 491
❤️Mensline: 1300 789 978
❤️Lifeline (24 hours): 131 114
Men bullying a woman in front of a crowded court room, asking her to recall, in intimate detail, an assault she did not want, did not ask for, and wants to put behind her. Then the details of her answers are plastered across the media.
We need a better way, this is not justice.
I’m so fucking offended I’m living in a country where a Minister of the Crown can say to a young woman alleging rape “These are things women go through” & not only keep her high-level job but get protected/promoted by her boss.
It still makes me feel sick.
#HugsForBrittany
On Saturday, the body of a woman, aged in her 40s, was found in a home in Chiswick, NSW. Today, her partner is charged with her murder. She is the 7th woman killed in the past two weeks and the 67th woman killed this year. She died during the 16 Days of Activism to End Gendered Violence. The ongoing slaughter of Australian women shows we need more than 16 days a year to turn the tide on this epidemic. If we're not acting to end violence against women and children every single day, we'll never farewell the scourge. And for the MRAs, I see your attempts to derail my conversations, but I refuse to give you attention. ❤️
On average, one woman a week is murdered by her current or former partner. The scale of the problem has been known for years, just open a newspaper, yet our Attorney General is still taking about measuring the problem instead of initiating something to stop it.
Today I remember the 43 women killed by violence so far in 2023.
We need to stop framing men who kill women as ‘good blokes’ who just snapped. Men must do far more to stamp out the sexism and misogyny that breeds inequality and violence.
The ten dumbest things we're being asked to believe about Gaza:
1. That Israel had no idea what Hamas was up to prior to October 7, but ever since October 7 has known about every hospital, mosque, school, refugee camp and water tower that Hamas is hiding in.
2. That the blame for all of the deaths caused by Israeli weapons launched by Israel rests solely on Hamas.
3. That Hamas is using “human shields” — meaning Hamas bases are hidden amidst civilian populations — yet Israel is managing to kill thousands of civilians without doing any meaningful damage to Hamas.
4. That it would be perfectly fine to murder children by the thousands even if they were being used as “human shields” — as though resolving a hostage situation by mowing down thousands of child hostages would be regarded as reasonable and acceptable by the public if it happened in our own country.
5. That is is only by pure coincidence that Israel bombing “Hamas targets” in civilian infrastructure and residential buildings just so happens to look exactly the same as what you’d expect to see if Israel was simply bombing civilian infrastructure and residential buildings and lying about its reasons for doing so.
6. That satellite images of entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble in Gaza have been caused by “precision strikes” directed solely at Hamas and have been carried out with the greatest of care for human life, despite Israeli officials openly saying that “the emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy” in this assault and that “Gaza will eventually turn into a city of tents; there will be no buildings.”
7. That this bombing campaign has anything to do with freeing Israeli hostages — as though the bombing campaign itself has not killed dozens of hostages, and as though anyone believes Israel would stop bombing Gaza after the hostages are returned.
8. That the only reason anyone could possibly oppose the detonation of thousands of bombs on an open air prison full of children would be if they had very strong and hateful opinions toward the members of the religion of Judaism.
9. That Hamas attacked Israel entirely out of the blue and completely unprovoked, solely because they are evil and hate Jews.
10. That Washington is powerless to stop this genocide that it is directly funding and supplying.
Why has the Sydney Archbishop not spoken publicly about the death of Lilie James at one of his schools? I'm told the he went to the all staff meeting at St Andrews and did not speak. Where is the Anglican response to violence against women?
This should not have happened.
I have fought wars in crowded cities. When civilians were present, it changed our plans.
Terrorists often use humans as shields. But that does not change your obligation to protect civilians. Period.
“Every day. Every single day. More than 20 people are hospitalised each day because they have been assaulted by a partner or family member. The vast majority of those who end up in hospital are women, just about three-quarters. We don't know the gender of the perpetrators…”
Our latest satellite analysis suggests that almost 29,000 buildings, more than 11% of the total in Gaza, may have been damaged by Israeli bombardment, and that at least 280,000 people may be homeless when the fighting stops. https://t.co/xvlUf4eZ7Q