10 supporters are talking about petitions related to Women's Rights!
It shouldn’t even be said why this sort of thing should not be acceptable. We should not normalize or fetishize this sort of behavior. Some may compare it to other games that have you do illegal stuff; but rape should not even be comparable. This is personal, this is traumatizing, and this has affected many real people.
I was 16 when I was raped by my best friends ex boyfriend. He got away with it and all of my friends turned against me because of the lies he told. He left me there and I had to walk home from the school footy oval where it happened covered in blood and act like nothing happened. I’m so sick of the justice system failing women and girls. I’m so sick of the patriarch continuing to embolden men to commit these acts and not fear consequence. I’m so sick of rape jokes and for being told to lighten up when I say they’re not funny. We need serious change in Australia and it should start with this case. Justice for Anastasia, I stand with you xo
We in the Bega Valley have lost homes due to fires, rising rental house prices, home ownership is too expensive for most and holiday rentals have taken the place of residential rentals, and when people are trying to find ways to resolve these issues, council sets laws that make it impossible and keep people struggling! Would the members of council prefer people sleeping in their cars and under bridges? It seems so. Obviously too narrow minded to be open to new solutions and ways forward for people in the Bega Valley.
Every woman has a story about men either hurting them or making them uncomfortable or scared of being hurt.
Too many women are being hurt and killed. Children grow up seeing it. It’s time we actually face the issue and investigate what is contributing to the problem, and what can and must be done to help.
My dear friend, Elaine Pandilovski age 44, was one of the many women who have been murdered by a current or former partner. Her son at age 12 was left to be raised by his elderly grandmother. He has autism. That was in 2020 and things have only gotten worse since. There is deafening silence from both sides of politics on this issue. Where’s our national day of mourning? Where is the action on this? If you are silent you are complicit. These deaths are PREVENTABLE!!!! DO something NOW!!! Why the hell are people who have histories of violence and DVOs out on them getting bail? Why don’t sentences match the crime? Where have we failed women during the justice process? There was outage at the Bondi terrorist attack and I expect the exact same level of outrage and action on this. Governments have blood on their hands.
I am a new migrant who calls Australia home and I recognise the hurt of colonisation. Therefore I support to have a different date to celebrate a united Australia which is inclusive of older and newer inhabitants of this beautiful land.