News item - ABC Lifestyle: How Amanda's ex used technology to gaslight and abuse her
By Kellie Scott
Posted to ABC Lifestyle, 26/11/25
The use of technology to perpetrate violence against women is a rapidly growing problem.
Amanda’s husband had been using coercive control for many years. The discovery of technology-facilitated abuse left her feeling violated and alone.
News item - The Mercury - Family violence delays
By Sue Bailey
Posted to The Mercury, 09/11/25
A great article by Sue Bailey at The Mercury on Sunday talking about the annual Tasmania Police report showing an increase of 1,125 incidents of family violence between 2023 and 2024.
News item - The Examiner - Tasmania's prison system is doing traumatised women 'more harm than good'
By Owen Sinclair
Posted to The Examiner, 04/11/25
Tasmania’s prison system is doing traumatised women ‘more harm than good’
Kianna Whaling, a lived experience advocate said, “It’s not a place where you’re able to rehabilitate. I think it’s designed more to institutionalise inmates, rather than put them on the right path to recovery. And that’s for all inmates in the women’s prison.”
News item - Lifting the lid on head injuries through domestic violence
Deb Thomson, Lived Experience Advocate spoke with Olivia Hicks on iHeart Tassie on 4 September, 2025 to discuss head injuries caused by domestic violence.
Publication - Systems abuse and family violence in Tasmania: The importance of lived experience expertise
Alina Thomas, Engender Equality CEO and Kianna Whaling, Lived Experience Advocate spoke with Tracey Strong on ABC Radio Breakfast (Hobart) on Monday 20 October, 2025 to discuss the new report on systems abuse, next steps and the importance of lived experience expertise
Too many times victims dismissed
By Lauren Richardson
The Examiner, Monday September 22, 2025
Engender Equality advocate and victim-survivor Deborah Thomson said sports concussions were getting the attention and awareness they needed, but brain trauma acquired through domestic violence wasn’t.
Domestic violence victim-survivors share early warning signs of abuse
By Kellie Scott
Posted to ABC News, 01/07/25 – 1:00pm
Told they couldn’t go out with friends. Stopped from giving male friends a hug. Called crazy and gaslit when their partner did something wrong.
These are just some of the early signs of intimate partner violence shared by victim-survivors in recent research from the University of Melbourne.
What helped Lili after surviving domestic violence in childhood
By Kellie Scott
Posted to ABC News, 29/07/25 – 3:08pm (Updated 06/08/25 – 8:49am)
The program coordinator for Engender Equality’s Advocates for Change says advocacy is a chance for victim-survivors to rebuild community and reclaim their voice.
“When you step into advocacy spaces, you get to experience allyship … you get to celebrate strength and resilience.”
The dangerous form of abuse around food that often goes unnoticed
By Kellie Scott
Posted to ABC News, 07/02/23 – 6:00am
Food control is a form of coercive control that is often invisible and potentially life-threatening. Identifying its signs, and pathways to help is important and can take time.
Victim-survivors of domestic violence share how we can help them feel safer to disclose abuse
By Kellie Scott
Posted to ABC News, 15/02/24 – 2:06pm (Updated 15/02/24 – 4:24pm)
Disclosing abuse can be incredibly difficult. Victim-survivors fear they won’t be believed, often blame themselves, and have a lot of shame around the violence they are experiencing.
But there are ways we can help those in our lives feel safer to share.