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20.01.2022 If you are experiencing or at risk of family violence, it is very important to put your safety and that of your children first, in deciding what to do next. Rec...ent changes to the law in WA have made it easier for some people to apply for a Family Violence Restraining Order. You can now apply online through an approved legal service provider like South West Community Legal Centre or Legal Aid WA. There are many agencies that can help protect you and your children from family violence. For legal advice or referrals call us on (08) 9791 3206. Alternatively, you can live chat to Legal Aid on www.legalaid.wa.gov.au

18.01.2022 CN: rape, trauma, victim blaming and death by suicide . This is Daisy Coleman. She was an artist. An advocate. A leader. A visionary. A survivor. . In 2012, a c...lassmate of Daisy’s raped her after plying her with alcohol at a party. She was 14. He was 17. He was also a footballer, with family connections that included wealth and status privilege. After the assault, he and his friends dumped her on the front lawn of her house in almost freezing temperatures. Her mother found her scratching at the door the next morning, barely conscious. . Despite having evidence to prosecute, charges against Matthew Barnett were ultimately dropped amidst an unofficial campaign of victim blaming and aggression towards Daisy. While Barnett went on to study at his grandfather’s distinguished alma mater, Daisy’s mother, striving to protect her children from the unbearable hostility being meted out against them (Daisy in particular), moved her whole family out of the Maryville town in which a privileged young man had first assaulted her daughter and then been protected by his community. . Daisy suffered because of the sexual violence a man chose to do to her. She suffered because of the lack of support a community chose to deny a child. Despite that, she went in to found a student-led national organization with a mission to end sexual assault among middle and high school students. The work of Safe BAE continues today, giving teens the tools to combat sexual violence, to understand consent and to reject victim blaming. . This week, Daisy Coleman ended her life by suicide. She was 23. As her mother Melinda says, She never recovered from what those boys did to her and it’s just not fair. . It isn’t fair. And men’s lives go on to fulfil the great potential society defends and protects for them, while the women they choose to harm are left to put themselves back together. . Daisy Coleman had a potential too. She managed to fulfil so much of it despite the violence that was done to her, first by Barnett and then by the structural powers in place that work every day to protect men just like him. . Rest in power, Daisy. You will not be forgotten. . LIFELINE: 131114 . [ETA: Feminist News has blatantly ripped this whole post off, word for word (except removing the content note ) and reposted it on their page with no accreditation. They’ve even left the Instagram spacing dots in there. If you wouldn’t mind commenting on their post that they’ve stolen it, I would be very appreciative. They’ve got 1.5 million followers and their version of my post, without my name attached, has been shared 10,000 times: https://www.facebook.com/110218365992057/posts/1273501592997056/?d=n]

15.01.2022 Bunbury’s 2020 White Ribbon Day event will be held on Friday 20 November, 10.30 -12 (free sausage sizzle lunch). Book it in your callendar now and ask your employer about attending to represent your business or service

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11.01.2022 Hannah Clarke did all she could to shield her children, and herself, from their abuser. Part of our systems reform to counter this this kind of abuse must be to better identify and protect from risk. As a government, we will be unrelenting in our efforts to #stoptheviolence.

05.01.2022 Our family violence reform Bill has passed State Parliament. This is the most comprehensive family violence law reform package ever introduced in Western Austra...lia. These transformational changes will put WA at the forefront of the fight against family and domestic violence. As we work to reduce violence in the community, it is so important that our laws respond to our increased understanding of how family and domestic violence impacts victims. For example, we cannot ignore the growing awareness of how non-fatal strangulation is a strong predictor of escalating and potentially fatal violence in family violence circumstances. Research tells us that a female victim of strangulation is seven times more likely to be the victim of homicide, compared to other family violence victims. That is why we are creating a new specific criminal offence for suffocation and strangulation. The legislation also includes a new specific offence for persistent family violence, in recognition of the reality of family violence for many victims, where the perpetrator commits persistent and ongoing acts of violence against them. We are also enabling courts to declare a person a serial family violence offender. This will make it easier for the courts and police to identify such an offender and mitigate against the risk of reoffending. Other changes include new aggravated penalties for offences that commonly occur in family violence circumstances, making it easier for evidence of family violence to be introduced in criminal trials and requiring police to record every family violence incident. Thanks to Attorney General John Quigley for progressing these laws. The McGowan Government is committed to reducing the unacceptably high rates of family and domestic violence in the community. I truly believe that these changes will save lives.