Hello! Thanks for supporting this petition.

I am sending the letter below to members of the Federal Australian parliament.

I am asking you to contact your member as well. You are welcome to use this letter as a template.

Lets get the help needed to women and children in Australia who are subjected to ongoing abuse, coercive control and violence.

Please share these petitions.

Thanks again!

Dear ...

My name is Ali Saoirse, and I work in domestic violence shelters here in Australia and I am also a survivor of violent domestic abuse. 

In June 2018 I started a petition calling for a Royal Commission in the violence against women in Australia and the ongoing murders of women through this intimate partner terrorism.

It has gained 50,000 signatures.

You can view it here https://www.change.org/stopviolencewomen

Nothing has changed. There has been very little progress by governments in stemming the abuse – social, financial, legal, psychological and physical, of women and children Australia.

I see this both as a survivor and in working in the shelters with hundreds of survivors like me. My abuse happened 3 decades ago, but I hear the exact same stories from new survivors every week.

I started a second petition in 2021, calling for an immediate increase in the adequate funding of frontline domestic violence services in Australia.

You can view it here https://www.change.org/p/urgent-campaign-for-federal-government-to-immediately-adequately-and-generously-fund-domestic-violence-services-to-protect-women

Again, the results speak for themselves. The rates of abuse and murders have stayed stubbornly the same, in many states it has increased.

Both these petitions are specific, informed, have tangible proven solutions outlined in them and come from years of research from both someone who work in domestic violence shelters and who is a survivor. It is possible to radically reduce the violence against women and children in a short space of time.

What we need the will of politicians like you to make this Royal Commission happen, a commitment to implementing all recommendations, and most critically adequately funding these.

The greatest threat to the women of this country is not a foreign power, it is not a terrorist organization, it is violent, controlling Australian men, in our own homes. This is domestic terrorism on an enormous scale. If we can spend $350 billion on submarines to protect us from long distant foreign threat, why can we not spend the billions required to address the threat that is happening now to half our population?

I am asking you all to present this petition, along with the other one you are supporting to help get a Royal Commission into the violence against women, with a specific spotlight on the perpetrators. 

I also highly recommend to you David Mandel’s book “Stop Blaming Mothers And Ignoring Fathers” and his work on focusing on the perpetrators. 

Thank you for your time and interest. I really admire all that you do.

Ali Saoirse