cods wrote on Oct 4
th, 2015 at 10:07am:
Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Oct 4
th, 2015 at 9:51am:
Lisa, you are not doing women a favour by misleading them.
Someone reading your posts might not call a cab in an emergency because you gave wrong information.
Taxi drivers DO know where the refuges are.
Anyone needing to get a taxi to the women's refuge?The Pat Giles refuge can provide safe, crisis housing for single women and women with children to 18 years who have experienced family violence. ...
a refuge in an emergency phone Crisis Care 9223 1111 and they will assist you with a taxi.http://patgilescentre.org.au/what-we-do/accommodation/ well done pansi.. but they are not the taxi company...thats what aussie is claiming he can get anyone to find out where they are even though hes already claimed he knows where they are....
very few people would have these addresses...as we have seen pansi in your neck of the woods Qld.. 3 women in one week murdered by their partners..
do dvos work.. no they dont....we have some very violent people out there who are hell bent on taking someones life...one of those women was also pregnant.. so two lives gone just like that.
Broken bones, stitches and black eyes... Mel's Story:
'I left my ex-partner last year after years of abuse and after seeing fear in the eyes of my daughters as they screamed and cried in fear. I had finally hit a breaking point and could not do it to them; or myself, any longer. I didnt want family violence to become our normal.
The violence had been horrific at times; he had punched me so hard that my teeth split through my face, leaving me in hospital to get stitches. He broke my bones, gave me bloodied and broken noses, swollen lips, black eyes. He smashed things in our home because he felt he could.
We had protection orders in place in the past and he breached them several times; I just didn't feel like it was ever taken seriously. There weren't consequences and nothing really changed.
Despite him attending counselling and anger management courses, things got worse and I realised the need for my children to understand what healthy and respectful relationships looked like was slipping away. If they grew up thinking it was normal a woman to be intimidated, emotionally abused and physically assaulted by her partner- I would have never have been able to forgive myself.
Upon leaving, the abuse escalated. I received support through the local Domestic Violence Centre and other support and women's legal services but my life was turned upside down daily; not helped by the loopholes in the court systems that allowed him to continue abusing us by manipulating the system that was supposed to be protecting us.
I feel passionate about this. Things must change. Domestic Violence impacted us in a way that left us broken and feeling helpless and scared. I want to influence the Governments response to DV victims so they are better protected and do not have to go through what I have; and am still going through every single day.'
....from a petition I signed at change.org