affordable housing, frontline legal services, #RaiseTheRate. Use the money we currently give to job agency and police officers to abuse people living in poverty. The cash handouts to wealthy families for elite schools and property portfolios. The consultant budget. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...
Rental crisis puts domestic violence victim-survivors in 'diabolical' situation
As Brisbane's rental market hits record high prices and historic low vacancy rates, advocates are warning some domestic violence victims are having to choose between staying in an unsafe home and faci...
abc.net.au
Fear of Speaking Out at the University of Newcastle, Australia "I've got a terminal disease, so I can stick my neck out to protest what's happening. But anybody else at the university who has kids to take care of, who has a rent or mortgage to take care of, they're basically held over a barrel."
The university where teaching is tougher than having terminal cancer for this academic
The University of Newcastle has been found to be worst in class when it comes to staff wellbeing. Now, an academic with terminal cancer is speaking out about it because others fear they cannot.
abc.net.au
This is a feel good image for me. These two adorable young Australian superb fairywren staying close to each other.
Universities around the world have a problem.
The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com · 6mo agoMost students don’t trust their colleges to handle sexual misconduct — and many expect administrators to mishandle a report if they were to make one. Only 16% of victims come forward, and fewer than half find support helpful. theconversation.com/students-exp...
I believe this is part of why institutional DARVO occurs. Everyone benefits from not only ignoring the violence, but from silencing the victim. Victims are stripped off their personhood and reduced to threats that must be dealt with through any means.
thene@thene.bsky.social · 6mo agothere's this, and there's also the places where everyone knows about the violence already but is willfully ignoring it, so "speaking up" is a threat to all the ways they have benefited from ignoring it - their reputations, their cosy position in the hierarchy, their social cachet with the abuser
Judith Herman has written some powerful words on this. People tend to see victims as the source of harm because they were unaware of the violence until the victim spoke up. A lot want to go back to the day before they knew—not a time before the violence ever happened.
My jaw dropped reading this. It's exactly what Uni of Newcastle staff suggested to me – a meeting over tea with my rapist to "talk it through". So do uni staff around the world see discussions over tea as appropriate solutions to sexual assault?
Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · 6mo agoIf you’re thinking about how sexual violence, social movements, and accountability today, read this brilliant Sara Ahmed essay on the difference between consequences and punishment. I recommend this essay to people grappling with accountability proceedings more than any other.
I find it concerning how restorative justice is being pushed as the solution to violence, particularly in the case of domestic or sexual violence. I've been jumped on for critiquing RJ, and highlighting it's potential misuses and harms, including in survivor spaces. It feels unsafe to now.
Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · 6mo agoIf there is going to be a reckoning about violence in progressive organizing spaces, we need to be prepared to hear survivors’ critiques of restorative justice. A lot of progressives think restorative justice is the only path forward, but it can be weaponized and co-opted just like other processes.
More Osprey. Could possibly be the same bird, as was only about a kilometre from the cliff shots. Have a lovely Sunday.
‘AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters” [as it] “disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters”.’
Mary Anne Franks@maryannefranks.bsky.social · 7mo agoPalantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
A young government staffer, who, two courts have now found, was raped by another government employee, at her workplace, has now been bankrupted by legal action by her boss at that workplace, a senior Australian Government minister, using disgraceful laws promulgated by that government...
What the Brittany Higgins ruling tells us about defamation in Australia
Former Western Australian senator Linda Reynolds has won her defamation case against former staffer Brittany Higgins over social media posts, a University of Melbourne legal expert
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au
Linda Reynolds will always be the woman who sued and bankrupted a rape victim. What a reputation.
Ebony Bennett@ebonybennett.bsky.social · 10mo agoLinda Reynolds has certainly cemented her ‘reputation’
This article is a gut punch. Our courts and media keep shielding the powerful while survivors are left to carry the pain alone. When women’s safety is sacrificed to protect reputations, justice fails. Survivors deserve truth, dignity and justice. womensagenda.com.au/latest/when-... #auspol
When our courts and media protect the powerful, women pay a devastating price
Our courts tell women that when we seek justice, we should be prepared to fight not only the men who harmed us but the systems that protect them.
womensagenda.com.au
My hot take: if your assessments fall down the moment you make disability accommodations, your assessment is shit. Do better.
As we approach the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts coming into force, a new policy paper by Louise A Jackson considers the impact of the legislation and suggests more needs to be done to entrench equality in the workplace. historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...
Mobilising Women’s Workplace Rights: 50 Years of Sex Equality Legislation - History & Policy
Women and men gained formal workplace equality on 29 December 1975 when the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts came into force. Incremental change has been achieved slowly across the subsequent 50 ...
historyandpolicy.org
“These words should shame not just those there that day who failed Lomas but every person who watches this footage…She speaks as if she is the problem, when it is those around her who have made her more vulnerable to death.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Kardell Lomas’s heartbreaking apology to police is a moment that should shame all Australians | Amy McQuire
The refusal to conduct an inquest reveals again what many black women know: it’s not a place for truth-telling but rather a mechanism to alibi the state and its failures
theguardian.com
Universities are not safe for women or gender-diverse students or staff, full stop. Sexual harassment is ignored at best and endorsed at worst. Staff perpetrators have significant leverage over victims, whether their victim is a student or staff.
Julie Cruse@academicabuse.com · 10mo ago"Our interviews revealed that universities are unsafe spaces for women and gender-diverse staff..." buff.ly/RziJTIJ 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾🔬 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #BlackEduSky #FeministSky
Broken trust, a vital investigative journalism series from The Guardian on systematic failures by police and coroner's court in domestic violence deaths in Queensland www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Gail Karran recorded the savage beating that killed her. Shocking new evidence reveals how police failed her
Exclusive: A secret audio device recorded Bill Karran raping, hitting and choking his wife of 30 years – immediately after he was released, drunk, from a Queensland watch house
theguardian.com
Police made potentially critical mistakes in Hannah Clarke murders #AusPol Detectives investigated ‘veracity and motive’ of Brisbane woman’s allegations of domestic violence and coercive control – even after the horrifying attack that killed her and her children www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Hannah Clarke murders: Queensland police made potentially critical mistakes, new evidence reveals
Exclusive: Detectives investigated ‘veracity and motive’ of Brisbane woman’s allegations of domestic violence and coercive control – even after the horrifying attack that killed her and her children
theguardian.com
The aurora australis dances over the peaks of the Freycinet National Park peninsula and Schouten Island. ... ... #auroraaustralis #aurora #freycinetnationalpark #freycinet
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣 "The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct" Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
As Condé Nast Folds Teen Vogue Into Vogue’s Website, NewsGuild Condemns the Plan
The union, which reps staffers, says the move was "clearly designed" to blunt the journalism of the brand, which has leaned in to progressive politics.
hollywoodreporter.com
Lex McMenamin (they/them)@lexmcmenamin.com · 11mo agoI was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
It's great to see Victoria introducing a bill to ban the use of NDAs against victims in workplace sexual harassment (SH) cases. But it's unclear whether this would cover cases of SH in education, too. It's so common, and it's vital to prevent universities and other institutions silencing victims.
Australian-first bill to ban use of NDAs to silence sexual harassment victims introduced in Victoria
Exclusive: If passed, laws would ban non-disclosure agreements in workplace sexual harassment cases unless expressly requested by an employee
theguardian.com