So sorry Heather. Hope the healing goes to plan. For now, rest and take care.

I had brain #MRI scan last Thursday looking for recurrent #glioblastoma (&/or treatment complications). I found out yesterday that there is still no sign of recurrence. I couldn’t be happier!!!!!

Thank you to the fabulous team looking after me so well especially my wife Katie &

Maybe all the folks who aren't worried about making rent or putting food on the table can donate their energy bill relief to a frontline women's safety service. I'll go first.

'In over 30 years of studying and engaging with communities affected by displacement, I have never seen a shocking atrocity like this.'
Me neither.

Shocking atrocity televised, day after day, rationalised and condoned by most western countries, and tolerated by most of the rest.

This. Please watch. Video is <2 mins.
🔥🔥🔥 #auspol

We see the single mothers out there who are giving everything they’ve got to protect their kids, & to help them heal.

Who are forced to not only constantly outmanoeuvre their manipulative, destructive ex-partners, but also the systems that enable them.

Solidarity and respect.

Full result of the vote on enhancing State of Palestine's membership at the UN.

.Kristine Ziwica The Saturday Paper on Australia’s #DFSV crisis: “All governments should fear the current upswell of anger that may, again, prove politically potent. The usual responses won’t suffice.” Now is the time for serious action & investment to save women & children’s lives & futures.

“We have to have change because this can no longer be the status quo,” Kat Berney, director of the National Women’s Safety Alliance, tells The Saturday Paper. “And if me talking truth to power about violence means I don’t have a job, then I would prefer to be talking that truth.”

As Michael Salter and I wrote in our paper on prevention, ‘single mothers are the unofficial reserve army of prevention agents’ in this country, mostly (with exceptions) pouring everything they have into trying to break intergenerational cycles of abuse and violence.

Single mothers who are supported to live free from fear, harassment, systems abuse, financial abuse and intimidation have every chance at providing the best possible home for kids (and even many that face all of that and more do an incredible job protecting their kids from it)

Dee Madigan It took 18 years to overturn that presumption - literally, as of last week, that presumption is no longer in the Family Law Act. But it has left a trail of destruction in its wake, and the family law courts have become dangerously pro-contact, even where abuse is substantiated

I know this is not Dee Madigan’s intention, but the ‘absent fathers’ narrative was actually what led to Howard’s disastrous family law reforms in 2006, establishing the presumption of equal shared parental responsibility. Gave abusive fathers more power to demand access/custody

I think a better way to frame that is to highlight research by Anne Summers, which showed 60% of single mothers are survivors of DV. That means their kids have been subjected to coercive control. The problem is not the absence of fathers, but the impact of their control/violence

New from Robin Fitzgerald and I, Prosecuting #strangulation offences- understanding withdrawal of complaints using a #SocialEntrapment lens. #DomesticViolence #CoerciveControl #CriminalLaw tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Chalmers is badging his budget as being about “restraint”, “relief” & “reform”. My view: After the last few months, with women murdered at an alarming rate, this budget also needs to be about safety. If not now, when? theguardian.com/australia-news…

An important clarification from Jess Hill on this piece by Jacqueline Maley.

This is why I say, that once coercive control laws start to take effect, we will likely see a whole different cohort of abuser emerge into the visibility of the criminal system. Our current, incident

The PM's biographer, Karen Middleton, has a detailed account of the PM's engagement at the rally last weekend, with some references to his personal history

theguardian.com/australia-news…

Eight years ago Australia had a wake-up call on family violence. So how did we end up here again? - The Guardian via inkl inkl.com/a/RXPdAyukgVM

Chanel Contos backing in Jess Hill and my paper on primary prevention in this great piece for The Saturday Paper thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/20…