“..your responses have been at best inadequate, & at worst, served to compound the trauma of so very many people.
You have not listened, you have not shown respect, you have not acted to protect anyone other than yourself in pursuit of your own political self-interest ..”
“If you cannot judge for yourself whether he is a fit and proper person to serve, then ask someone better qualified and less personally conflicted to do so. A reshuffle simply isn’t enough.”
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
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
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
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
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