This week, our CAWLS team reflect and acknowledge Ochre Ribbon Week 🎗️ A time to raise awareness and discuss the devastating impacts of domestic & family violence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and call for action to end the violence – particularly for women and children. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are…
CAWLS is thrilled to support “Equal Futures” – a fair celebrating International Women’s Day to showcase and honour our special & diverse Centralian Women 👏 📌 Women’s Museum of Australia, 2 Stuart Terrace ⌚ Saturday 6 March 2021 from 5pm 🎟️ Donation upon entry 🙌 Live Music, Games, Food Stalls and more ℹ️➡️ https://bit.ly/2NwO1fQ
FREE TRAINING | Identifying & Responding to Coercive Control 📖 As the debate over the best way to address coercive control gains momentum across Australia, this interactive workshop provides an opportunity to revisit understandings of family and domestic violence and control tactics. Participants will: ✔️ strengthen skills in identifying coercive control and patterns of abuse;…
International Women’s Day is just one month away! 🤩 📣 CAWLS is pleased to support the ‘Equal Futures – An International Women’s Day’ Fair at the Women’s Museum of Australia. Live music, games, food and entertainment to celebrate the resilience of the women of Central Australia 💪 Pop the date in your diary & we…
⚠️ Content Warning: Sexual Violence ⚠️ The Guardian has published a powerful short film ‘Asking for It’ which tells the story of a victim of sexual assault in the Northern Territory. Despite the partial success of the #LetHerSpeak campaign, in instigating a change to previous gag laws in the NT, this woman cannot be publicly…
Congratulations to the outstanding all-woman line-up of 2021 Australian of the Year honourees 👏🏆 🎖️ Grace Tame, Australian of the Year 🎖️ Dr Miriam Rose-Ungunmerr Baumann, Senior Australian of the Year 🎖️ Isobel Marshall, Young Australian of the Year 🎖️ Rosemary Kariuki, Australia’s Local Hero It is heartening to see these brave and courageous women…
⚠️ Content Warning: Domestic Violence & Homicide ⚠️ A recent coronial inquest has again identified the critical importance of education and training for the criminal justice system. First responders – right through to judicial officers – need to understand, identify and respond to escalating patterns of coercive and controlling behaviour. 🗣️ “It appears that police…
A landmark hearing in the UK is set to examine handling of allegations of family and sexual violence by family courts ⚖️ Four appeals will be heard together featuring allegations of rape and coercive control, which emerged during proceedings focusing on access to children. Comments made by the judge in relation to the cases have…
The CAWLS team undertook a flood briefing information session from Northern Territory Emergency Services (NTES) Community Engagement Officer, Annie Pidgeon, earlier today 🆘💦 The session was invaluable, as Annie advised our new Territorian staff (& refreshed our long time locals!) about flooding in the NT and how to prepare, respond & recover from floods/severe storms…
Women use violence for different reasons than men. Australian research demonstrates that women reported for domestic and family violence behaviours were often responding to threatened or actual abuse. Understanding the different motivations and dynamics of women’s use of force is fundamental if we are to address the criminalisation of women. Women are the fastest growing…
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