EXCLUSIVE: I spent a day inside a family violence refuge. What I heard from women was chilling.
MAMAMIA - When Renee* comes rolling through the doors of the Safe Steps Family Violence refuge, she is frenetic. Her movements are quick. Sharp. And her words are too. In tow are her four children - aged 16, 14, 12 and 9 - negotiating overflowing bags of groceries…
5 Australian women were killed in one week. This is why we will never stop talking about it.
MAMAMIA - Jifeng 'Eileen' Liu. Lametta Fadlallah. Amner 'Amy' al-Hazouri. Tania Trickey. Florrie 'Kory' Reuben. Five Australian women, each killed in the past week. Five Australian women, each killed by violence perpetrated by men…
A third of migrant women experience domestic violence in Australia. But there's more to it than that.
MAMAMIA - Prisha* was 10 years old when she and her family migrated to Sydney from Uttar Pradesh in northern India. After graduating high school, she studied to become an engineer – the same profession as her soon-to-be husband.. …
'Last night, I attended a domestic violence vigil. I didn’t expect to be triggered.'
MAMAMIA - It was such a long time ago now, and he is someone buried deep in my past. But at the time, we were in our 20s and in love, and so when it happened, I was in shock. My trust had been shattered…
On the eve of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, a woman was allegedly murdered.
MAMAMIA - "Another woman taken." It's just one of the handwritten notes that sits alongside tumbled flowers, part of the makeshift tribute that lines the front of her Croydon North home.…
Men are calling domestic violence helplines more than ever. This is what they're saying.
MAMAMIA - It’s a quiet day at the Men's Referral Service (MRS), run by the organisation No to Violence in Melbourne…
'Family violence left me homeless at 15. Here's how I survived.'
MAMAMIA - At 15 years old, Kristen walked out of the tiny commission flat that she shared with her mother – for the last time. With only the school uniform she was wearing, school bag, and $10 in her pocket, she walked to a friend’s place and pleaded to stay the night. But she was turned away.
‘Deadly’ chutzpah! A life unbounded
THE AJN - From a homeless teen to becoming the first Aboriginal person to achieve a PhD in medicine, Professor Lisa Jackson Pulver is driven by a passion to make the world a better place.
‘You have to be able to talk about it’
Naomi Tucker is the co-founder of Shalom Bayit, a centre set up to support women and children fleeing domestic violence in the Jewish community in the Bay Area of the US.
“So often, we have seen women’s safety put at the bottom of the totem pole of Jewish communal priorities … [It needs to be put] on our Jewish social justice agenda, as a communal priority. We work on so many justice issues in the community, and most of the time they don’t include women – yet women are half of our population,” says Tucker.
Behind closed doors
In Australia, 1 in 4 women have experienced emotional abuse by a current or former partner, and 1 in 5 women have experienced sexual violence since the age of 15. National statistics on domestic violence are shocking and alarming, as is the silence and stigma which continue to largely shroud the issue – even in the Jewish community,