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22 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Definitely one of those “He Said, Desk Said” situations #BlameTheDeskAustralia
You can’t trust these desks with all those bare legs
The desk just has a case of ‘Morning After Regret’ and now wants to ruin this poor mans political career
#BlameTheDeskAustralia
Another desk jumping on the attention-seeking “bandwagon” #BlameTheDeskAustralia
Jenny told me to imagine the desk has feelings.

But I’m not sure what those are.

#BlameTheDeskAustralia

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🐀Dr Karen Williams MPH FRANZCP 🐀 Profile picture
25 Mar
Long thread: In ONE year in Australia:

55,300 children live out of home because their homes are too unsafe
Child Protection Services are looking after 159, 000 at-risk children
32, 000 children had claims of abuse substantiated
6,200 hospitalisations due to family violence
2/ 288 children hospitalised due to family violence

In ONE year in Australia
The police record 25,000 sexual assaults
3/ In ONE year in Australia
The number of Domestic violence assault victims were
18, 800 in WA
4500 in NT
7100 in SA
28,800 in NSW
1000 in ACT
1400 in Tasmania
There were 11,300 charges of fam violence offences in QLD

In one year @VicPol recorded 78k fam violence incidents
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🐀Dr Karen Williams MPH FRANZCP 🐀 Profile picture
20 Mar
Thread: We need to address the myths surrounding women in the family law court. The myth that women Make Up abuse to obtain “strategic advantage” in court & that kids tell health care workers they were abused bc their mother is “coaching them” firstly- @MattsJane @AbigailBoydMLC
2/ We cannot tell women they need to leave their violent homes but then accuse them of lying the moment they try. We understand women cannot leave without the family law court. You cannot simply pick up & leave without court orders @Drhutch2011 @BethanyinCBR @kjoh7876
3/ So when we have rates of child abuse & family violence as high as we do- we have to EXPECT that the court is full of family violence...which it is.
@NTVorg @melwojtas @angelo_virgona @ANROWSCEO @MSMWatchdog2013 @RonniSalt @LouiseKNewman @ManjulaOConnor @AustralianLobby @dvnsw
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🐀Dr Karen Williams MPH FRANZCP 🐀 Profile picture
19 Mar
1/ The idea of some men in this thread that they could “tell” if a mate was an abuser is not just false but also dangerous. These are the same kind of men who provide ‘character references’ in court for abusers,saying what a ‘good guy’ he is. Most abusers are very charming,...
2/ ..& frequently successful & funny. They will often tell you how ‘she’ is bit ‘crazy’ & ‘jealous’
Men need to remember part of the abuse is to convince everyone around her that he’s the prize, the patient one ..& he generously ‘tolerates’ her. If his friends love him.. @davtw2
...& if he isolates her friends & family..he can then completely jail her from the community...without any physical jail cell .
No one should believe they are above being manipulated by an abuser- they can convince lawyers, magistrates & health professionals with ease @yabbtopia
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🐀Dr Karen Williams MPH FRANZCP 🐀 Profile picture
17 Mar
10 OTHER ways to address low conviction rates of sexual assault

TRIGGER WARNING
1. avoid taking statements immediately after assault-she may have been given drugs by the perp
2. learn to recognise a traumatised woman may not be a “good” witness @Drhutch2011 @dhanyajmani
3. recognise that vaginal swabs and anal swabs are not a fun sport, a doctor’s done them for a reason
4. if women has injuries/lacerations consider that she may not be into 50 shades of gray but rather be telling the truth
5. involve experts in sexual trauma, family violence
And PTSD in your decision making tree
6. Always make sure a female support worker is available to survivors
7. consider the relationship of the victim & perp in it’s entirety -most young girls don’t want to be strangled on the first date or much ever really
#EnoughIsEnough
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🐀Dr Karen Williams MPH FRANZCP 🐀 Profile picture
16 Mar
Remember that time in 2014, when two men were killed by coward-punches ?
And how they changed the laws, shut down Sydney & lost $16 billion in revenue?
Remember a similar response to the 120 women & children killed in family violence that year?
Yeah neither do I @RonniSalt
I wrote this a year ago... still relevant

amp.abc.net.au/article/119980…
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🐀Dr Karen Williams MPH FRANZCP 🐀 Profile picture
14 Mar
My heart is heavy this morning.
A long thread..TRIGGER
I became a dr, a brown one at that!Doesn’t that mean we have equality? Despite the fact at least a 1/5 of the work of GPs is fam violence related - there’s no fam violence Medicare rebate. GP’s are financially #MedTwitter
Penalised if they spend too long with a patient.
Medicare cards are linked with abusive hsbs so some women cannot access medical help.
GPs know that women need more than what can be offered in a consult- but the psychologist or psychiatrist books are full- & they charge gaps...
But these women, even the rich ones are under financial control & cannot pay!
So we sometimes try not to charge but then we have our own families to consider & once again female drs will wear the costs because the govt won’t.@RonniSalt @Lisa_Wilkinson @Drhutch2011
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