Speaking and Campaigning
After Kemalettin Dincer fatally stabbed his stepdaughter, Zerrin, in 1981, he said she had dishonoured the family by having a boyfriend. At trial he was offered a provocation defence and found not guilty of murder. In court, his lawyer asked a doctor whether Zerrin was a virgin.
Heather Osland’s murder conviction went to the heart of the prejudices facing women.
Robert Farquharson was found guilty of murdering his children – he drove them into a dam - in an act of revenge against his ex-wife.
I wrote this piece in The Age newspaper ten years ago.
The article critiques the Netflix series Adolescence for portraying the rare case of a 13-year-old boy murdering a girl as normality, when the real norm is men killing women.
The treatment Joanne Lees received in the media after her boyfriend was murdered in Australia in 2001 was truly shameful.
How could a jury find a man who strangled his estranged wife and then buried her in a bush grave not guilty of murder?
Let’s start with an apology.
After a girl cried ‘rape’ in a park, two men went in search and came upon two gay men walking under the stars. One ended up dead.
The misogynist Adrian Bayley was out on parole when he murdered Jill Meagher.
We don’t want politicians exploiting victims with opportunistic law-and-order campaigns, but that doesn’t mean we can’t challenge the justice system’s findings about violence against women, including the 14-year sentence hand down to James Stoneham in 2013.