In just three days, we lost two women and two girls to femicide across the country.
A man has been charged with killing Jana Armstrong - she is the fourth female victim of male violence in Australia since July 4. Jana was reported missing from Newtown, Queensland, on July 7. The alleged killer is known to her and charged with murder (domestic violence).
We also lost 13-year-old Layla Jeffery on July 4, a 17-year-old unnamed girl on July 6 and 39-year-old mum-of-two Lavanya Chappa on July 7.
In all their cases, the accused killers are known to the victims.
This is what a femicide epidemic looks like. It features men and boys killing women and girls because they can.
Jana, Lavanya, Layla, the unnamed girl - indeed all victims of femicide - deserve a national truth-telling. Their families deserve to be heard at a Royal Commission into the Killing of Women and Girls.
Please support Sherele Moody with her objective of making the govt hold a Royal Commission which would:
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Examine all unlawful deaths of women and girls;
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Examine the need for a federal femicide law similar to those already in place in other countries;
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Investigate why First Nations women are more likely than any other woman to experience traumatic injury or death as a result of intimate partner violence;
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Examine the complex and significant needs of women from diverse and marginalised backgrounds including First Nations women, women with English as a second language, women who are chronically ill or living with disability, sex workers, trans and gender non-binary people and women who are lesbian, bisexual, intersex or queer;
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Lay bare the systemic failures that underpin the violent deaths of women and girls, including the ways in which police, the courts and support services routinely fail victims before they are killed;
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Look into increased provision of appropriate resources and funding to ensure all women and girls have access to services including safe and affordable housing and legal supports;
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Examine how the legal system is designed around the rights and needs of perpetrators not the victims and how this impacts sentencing, parole and bail outcomes;
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Examine the factors of violence against women which Our Watch describes as: Condoning of violence against women; Men’s control of decision-making and limits to women’s independence in public and private life; Rigid gender stereotyping and dominant forms of masculinity; and Male peer relations and cultures of masculinity that emphasise aggression, dominance and control; and
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Examine how social media and mainstream media frame attitudes towards women and girls.
My ex hit me in the face thousands of times during our relationship. I was slapped over and over again, whenever she was angry or upset. She threw things at me, poured drinks over my head, she smashed and destroyed my things.
I never did anything remotely close to that, and rarely even spoke in anger against her because I was in fear of her. However, one time I was tired and refused to get out of the bedroom after she ordered me to leave the room. She went to the police and was able to get a IVO on the basis of me refusing to leave the room.
The police said they "didn't care" about her violence and refused to do anything about all the other incidents where she physically attacked me. However on the basis of her just going to the police and asking, they got an IVO for her that required me to leave my home and never return.
If "not leaving the room when your wife tells you to" is sufficient threshold for police to get an IVO requiring a man to leave his home to protect a woman, maybe the problem isn't police not taking Women's reports seriously? Especially if literally being repeatedly hit in the face is not sufficiently bad to get police to do anything to protect me from violence.
The indigenous stats are well documented here. I'm not aware of any stats on other cultures.
This is brutal but I am always very ....curious about men who see a post about systemic violence against women and interject their own stories about how they're the victim. What is the purpose?
You literally tell your own tale of police mishandling DV then turn around and say things don't need to change.
Come the fuck on dude.
I am sorry about what happened to you. Men are not the only ones that perpetrate violence. Domestic violence takes the lives of adults and children and traumatises those that survive.
However, statistics show that men's domestic violence against women (and other men) result in many more deaths and a lot of permanent harm from such as from broken bones, knocked-out teeth and brain damage. That cannot be ignored.
Also, please don't make statements about other groups (like they are over-represented) if you can't provide evidence. We need to stop the violence, not reinforce prejudices.
Your own quote in the body of this post states that First Nations women are more likely than any other woman to experience traumatic injury or death as a result of intimate partner violence, and neither you or the article linked to evidence for this.
Ok, here's a start: https://www.aihw.gov.au/family-domestic-and-sexual-violence/resources/fdsv-summary