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Media Changing the Story: Media guidelines for the reporting of domestic, family and sexual violence in the Northern Territory
07 December 2021
These guidelines are an excellent resource for journalists, writers and media professionals who are covering domestic, family, and sexual violence in the Northern Territory. They remind us to humanise victims and survivors, to use culturally sensitive reporting practices, and to centre the voices of relatives and community members. Deadlines should not come before the need to connect with communities to ensure that a tragedy is covered with the input, advice, cooperation and guidance of those...
Listen. Think. Trust. Act. Differently, The Shift
18 August 2021
Listen. Think. Trust. Act. Differently - A Reflections and Resources Outro Booklet, compiled by The Shift During NAIDOC Week a working group of The Shift collaborated with First Nations women advocates and leaders for an online day of reflection, strategy and action, "Intersectional Movements and a Gender Equal and Just Future: Listen. Think. Trust. Act. Differently ." This Outro Booklet of reflections and resources was compiled from the convening. Through these pages, you will find...
Technology-facilitated abuse among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women
09 August 2021
The Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research was commissioned by the Office of the eSafety Commissioner to undertake qualitative research into the experiences of technology-facilitated abuse among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in remote and regional areas. The research took a participatory approach and was framed by Indigenist feminist research principles, and involved partnering with local Indigenous organisations and training community-based researchers to undertake the data collection. The methods included yarning with 12 Aboriginal...
The Mother’s Tale - Women’s Experiences of Maternity Care in Australia
06 July 2021
From 1 July 2020 to 30 October 2020, Maternal Health Matters Inc. hosted a survey about women’s experiences of childbirth. Responses were collected using an online questionnaire taken from the 2013 Dignity in Childbirth survey conducted by Birthrights, the UK human rights in childbirth charity, though they have no involvement with this survey or analysis of the data. Findings The Mother’s Tale - Women’s Experiences of Maternity Care in Australia - highlights the impact the...
18 women in the workplace statistics you need to know (in 2021)
07 April 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic hasn't made working life easy for pretty much anyone. Women in particular have felt the effects of a precarious job market, shifting responsibilities at home, and increased pressure at work, leading to a negative outlook for an uncomfortably high proportion of them. Table of contents 1. Women in the workplace statistics 2. Women in the workplace statistics show that the pandemic has negatively impacted women. 3. The #MeToo movement had an impact...
Indigenous Femicide and the Killing State
09 March 2021
This case study documents the spaces and contexts in which Indigenous women die outside the formal custody of the state: on the streets; on the open road; in their own homes or at the edges of communities. In these spaces, although outside of its carceral confines, the violence of the settler state is enacted through diverse practices that render Indigenous women’s lives unsafe and produce their deaths. The term femicide is used to underline that...
Justice for Women Amidst COVID-19
02 September 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a global emergency of multiple dimensions. There is now major concern that COVID-19 and its impact will push back fragile progress on gender equality, including slowing progress in reversing discriminatory laws, the enactment of new laws, the implementation of existing legislation and broader progress needed to achieving justice for all. This rapid assessment examines how the impacts of COVID-19 are threatening women’s ability to access justice. It examines the impacts...
