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Friday 16 November 2012
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sexual assault reporting app developed post-jill meagher

Ruth Horsfall
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In the days after Jill Meagher’s body was found, police were inundated with calls from women who reported having been the victims of sexual harassment on Sydney Road, not far from where Meagher was last seen. They were all overwhelming similar in that they had not reported the incident when it happened, for a various…
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Tuesday 23 October 2012
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news: gillard moves further ahead in polls; abbott with more snide remarks

Ruth Horsfall
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In what is some sweet, sweet vindication and a firm ‘fuck you’ to every Australian media journalist who labelled Prime Minister Gillard’s ‘I will not be lectured by this man’ speech as nothing more than personal abuse, playing the gender card and being calculatingly political, it has come out in that last few days that…
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Monday 1 October 2012
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plan to reduce violence against women committed to by federal and state governments

Ruth Horsfall
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With the recent disappearance and subsequent murder of Irish woman Jill Meagher in Melbourne, never has the issue of violence committed against women been more important. Meagher was last seen on CCTV footage walking from drinks with work colleagues to the home she shared with her husband – a mere 700 metres away. A Coburg…
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Sunday 30 September 2012
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feminist news round-up 30.09.12

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jill meagher’s body found; suspect charged with her rape and murder Jill Meagher, the Irish woman who disappeared without a trace from Sydney Rd, Brunswick in Melbourne in the early hours of Sunday morning, was found dead early Friday morning by homicide police. Meagher was with friends at a bar when she left around 1.30am…
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Friday 14 September 2012
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in brief: chris brown, todd akin, the acl and beautiful lengths

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Chris Brown has yet again managed to cause a controversy in regards to his history of abuse towards his girlfriend at the time, Rihanna by getting a tattoo on his neck that bears a disconcerting likeness to her face. And not like her regular face, but stomach-churningly similar to the picture of her that was…
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