Kirrae Health Service Inc.

01/12/2025

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16 Days of Activism, Day 7:

Housing insecurity and homelessness play a critical role in enabling or preventing women achieving safety. Lack of access to safe housing creates an enormous hurdle that prevents many women from escaping violence, or returning to a violent relationship.

For more information on services that can provide assistance in escaping domestic violence, visit https://1800respect.org.au/services

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01/12/2025

30/11/2025

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16 Days of Activism, Day 6:

Children may be used by perpetrators in tactics of control directed at their other parent, carer or family member. This may look like asking children to report back on the parent or care giver, using behaviour that indicates non return of a child/ren, undermining the relationship between the parent/caregiver and child or threatening to harm child/ren.

For more information on the effect of family violence on children, visit https://1800respect.org.au/violence-and-abuse/children-and-young-people/children-and-violence/impacts

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29/11/2025

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16 Days of Activism, Day 5:

Sexual violence includes anything sexual that makes you feel scared or uncomfortable. Children are at greater risk of harm from sexual violence. Indigenous children face additional barriers for disclosing violence which are related to fears of authorities, potential removal, experiences with justice system and service providers.

For more information on what sexual violence and harassment can look like, visit 1800RESPECT https://1800respect.org.au/violence-and-abuse/sexual-assault-and-violence and for more information on counselling and support services, visit CASA https://www.sasvic.org.au/help-and-advice

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28/11/2025

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16 Days of Activism, Day 4:

Technology facilitated abuse is harmful actions that are carried out online or through digital technology. It can look different for each person, but it can include monitoring your physical and online activity, imaged-based abuse, or accessing your online accounts.

For more information about technology facilitated abuse, visit the eSafety Commissioner website https://www.esafety.gov.au/key-topics/tech-based-abuse/about-tech-based-family-domestic-sexual-violence

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27/11/2025

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In our community, the term 'family violence' is more broad, than in non-Indigenous communities. 'Family violence' includes family and intimate relationships, kinships and community connections and includes lateral violence. Hospitalisation statistics only reflect the more severe or repeated cases of family violence that result in medical assistance.

For more information on what family violence can look like, check out this fact sheet created by Djirrahttps://djirra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Family-Violence-Factsheet-October-2021.pdf

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26/11/2025

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16 Days of Activism, Day 2:

Indigenous people face unique risk factors that contribute to family violence, that must be recognised as both a cause and effect of social disadvantage and intergenerational trauma. The drivers behind violence against Indigenous women and children are intersecting and accumulative, being closely linked to colonisation, systematic racism, intergenerational trauma and social inequity.

To find out more about the drivers of violence visit RESPECT Victoria https://www.respectvictoria.vic.gov.au/prevention/drivers

Stand with Kirrae to make a stand against violence.

25/11/2025

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16 Days of Activism, Day 1

Indigenous women are 32 times more likely than non-Indigenous women to be hospitalised due to family violence, and it is more often perpetrated by a non-Indigenous male.

To find out more about the impacts of violence and how to prevent violence against Aboriginal women and children, visit www.ourwatch.org.au/preventing-violence/aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-women