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(1) With another women being brutally murdered on Saturday, we need to shine a spotlight on the reasons WHY women are being bashed, raped & murdered. I’d like to share with you some confronting information from a speech made on 19 August by @NStottDespoja, chair of @OurWatchAus
(2) The following was published by @BroadAgenda5050, from a blog by @harejulie, quoting Natasha’s speech which was on the 6 month anniversary of Hannah Clark and her three children’s brutal murder. “Domestic violence is one of the most heinous manifestations of gender inequality”
(3) Every day of every year, police across Australia respond to 657 domestic and family violence notifications. That is one every two minutes. On the 34th week of 2020, 34 women and 38 children have been murdered by a current or former intimate partner.
(4) Alcohol, drugs, mental illness & poverty do not cause domestic violence & it is not always helpful to think of “domestic violence perpetuated by dangerous men.
It teaches us a lot about domestic violence. Whatever our perceptions, family violence does not occur in a vacuum.
It teaches us a lot about domestic violence. Whatever our perceptions, family violence does not occur in a vacuum.
(5) Perpetrators don’t just simply snap and kill. It is usually the tragic end of a long history of fear, control and abuse. @NStottDespoja noted that: that not all men were violent and not only women were victims. However, men and women do experience violence differently.
(6) While 95% of all violent incidents are perpetrated by men, women, usually experience it from someone they know, and usually at home. More than half have children in their care at the time. Men, on the other hand, usually experience violence at the hands of a stranger.
(7) the rates of violence against indigenous women were “Australia’s national shame. 3 in 5 indigenous women have experienced physical or sexual violence at the hands of a male intimate partner. Indigenous women are 11 times more likely to die as a result of a violent assault.
(8) Ending violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women must be a national priority.
(9) Violence emerges in a broader social construct. This is a society where the underlying conditions of gender inequality means that violence is often condoned, trivialised or considered a private matter - @NStottDespoja
(10) Our national response to the pandemic could play an intrinsically important role. [It] can strengthen women’s economic security, our independence, our economic participation and decision-making in public life – all measures that will help reduce violence against women.
(11) all the previous tweets in this thread are from @OurWatchAus Chair, @NStottDespoja, published on a blog by @harejulie for @BroadAgenda5050. We need to TALK about this & force this conversation onto the leaders of this country - currently the LNP. Only when our government....
(12) ...actually takes violence against women and gender equity seriously, will we start seeing initiatives to create change. We are SICK of seeing a woman’s face with #HERNAMEIS 
https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt="">, because it means ANOTHER woman has been brutally and senselessly murdered. NO MORE PLATITUDES.
(13) And NO MORE IGNORING US, @ScottMorrisonMP. YOU need to do something about #FEMICIDE in this country. Gender equity is YOUR responsibility, because nothing will change without a concerted effort from the top down. @Virginia_Hauss @Rubenstein_Kim1 @TrishBergin1 @NStottDespoja
