This episode is a keynote address delivered by former ANROWS board director, Professor Victoria Hovane, from The Australian National University, and Doctor Mark Wenitong, from Apunipima Cape York Health Council. In their address, Vickie and Mark discuss intergenerational trauma, and the effects this trauma has in terms of health, health system responses, and family violence in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander communities. Their keynote followed the Warawarni-gu Guma (Healing Together) Statement from the 2nd National Research Conference on Violence against Women, held in Sydney in May, 2018, and is referred to in their address. Vickie provides a conceptual framework for understanding intergenerational trauma and responses to family violence in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander communities, and what that looks like in policy. Mark explains how intergeneration trauma is seen and worked with in practice, and encouraging examples of trauma-based work in ending violence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Vickie and Mark’s PowerPoint presentation can be accesses from our website. This was recorded on the land of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation, the Traditional Owners of the lands where Sydney city is situated today. Insights: the ANROWS podcast is part of ANROWS’s commitment to disseminating and supporting the application of the evidence base that addresses violence against women and their children in Australia. CONTENT NOTE: This podcast episodes includes descriptions of violence and homicide which some may find confronting or distressing. Recommended support services include: 1800 RESPECT – 1800 737 732 and Lifeline – 13 11 14 

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Intergenerational trauma & family violence in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander communities

At ANROWS’s 2nd National Research Conference held in Sydney in May, 2018, a forum was held for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander delegates to develop a Statement to be delivered at the Conference. This episode is that statement - The Warawarni-gu Guma (Healing Together) Statement. The Statement provides an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspective on domestic and family violence including a pathway forward for Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander communities. This was a challenging, and inspiring moment at the conference, where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander delegates declared the realities for reducing violence against women among their communities, for research, and offered a call to action for non-Indigenous people to stand with, and support solutions that come from Indigenous cultural knowledge bases. Professor Victoria Hovane offers an overview of the proceedings, the cultural contexts that this statement was developed from, and a call to action for delegates. Lorice Douglas from the Pilbara, provides a background to the language and cultural context of the Statement, best approaches to engaging directly with Aboriginal communities, and how kinship structures operate in Aboriginal communities in north-west Australia. Maria Martin-Pedersen delivers the Warawarni-gu Guma Statement. A video and transcript of the Warawarni-gu Guma Statement is available on the ANROWS website. This was recorded on the land of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation, the Traditional Owners of the lands where Sydney city is situated today. Insights: the ANROWS podcast is part of ANROWS’s commitment to disseminating and supporting the application of the evidence base that addresses violence against women and their children in Australia.

Warawarni-gu Guma Statement: Healing Together in Ngurin Ngarluma

Engaging men who use violence in conversations about change is a critical first step to sustainable attitudinal and behaviour change. Engaging men who use violence: Invitational narrative approaches, a research report from ANROWS, explores how invitational narrative approaches use stories to challenge minimisation, denial or apathy towards the use of violence against women and children. Invitational narrative practice engages perpetrators in an emotional journey, supporting them to take responsibility for their behaviours by discovering their core values and relationship ideals. In this episode, members of the research team Professor Sarah Wendt (Flinders University), Dr Kate Seymour (Flinders University), and Chris Dolman (Emerging Minds and Uniting Communities) sit down with Michele Robinson, Director, Evidence to Action (ANROWS) to discuss what invitational narrative practice is, how shame and “ethical preferences” play an important role in this technique, and discuss how to evaluate the effectiveness of this work. This interview was recorded on the traditional Country of the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains. Insights: the ANROWS podcast is part of ANROWS’s commitment to disseminating and supporting the application of the evidence base that addresses violence against women and their children in Australia. CONTENT NOTE: This podcast episode includes discussion of violence which some may find confronting or distressing. Recommended support services include: 1800 RESPECT – 1800 737 732 and Lifeline – 13 11 14. This podcast episode also contains explicit language. 

How do we engage men who use violence?

The emergency of intimate partner homicide continues to dominate headlines in Australia. A 2018 report by the Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network found that between July 2010 and June 2014, there were 152 intimate partner homicides in Australia that followed an identifiable history of domestic violence. Despite increased and more nuanced attention, many would argue we are not seeing the urgency of action that we might expect to accompany these figures. How can the data help us to better understand the context of these homicides, and communicate the gendered nature of the problem? In this episode, Heidi Ehrat, 2018 Chairperson of the Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network, and Amani Haydar, lawyer, artist, and advocate, sit down with ANROWS CEO Dr Heather Nancarrow to discuss compassion fatigue, personal narratives, data, and characteristics and warning signs of intimate partner violence. This interview was recorded on the land of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation, the Traditional Owners of the lands where Sydney city is situated today. Insights: the ANROWS podcast is part of ANROWS’s commitment to disseminating and supporting the application of the evidence base that addresses violence against women and their children in Australia. CONTENT NOTE:This podcast episodes includes discussion of violence and homicide which some may find confronting or distressing. Recommended support services include: 1800 RESPECT – 1800 737 732 and Lifeline – 13 11 14 SEE ALSO: Amani’s exhibition, The mother wound is on at Fairfield City Museum and Gallery until 23 November 2019 The 2018 data report from the Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network ANROWS Fact sheet: Domestic & Family Violence Lethality: The facts about intimate partner homicide 

Recounting women

Despite attempts to reform self-defence laws, in practice, there are significant barriers to raising self-defence for women who have experienced domestic violence and killed their abusive partner.Transforming legal understandings of intimate partner violence, a research project conducted by ANROWS, examined homicide trials in which self-defence was raised by women who had killed an abusive intimate partner. The project explored how legal professionals and experts understand intimate partner violence (IPV), including which facts are selected and presented as relevant to understanding the homicide, the language used to frame those facts and the conclusions drawn from them.In this episode, researchers Professor Julia Tolmie (The University of Auckland) and Associate Professor Stella Tarrant (The University of Western Australia) sit down with Michele Robinson, Director, Evidence to Action (ANROWS) to discuss how the research developed, their work in the field, and key takeaways from the research report.This interview was recorded on the land of the Whadjuk Nyoongar people, the Traditional Owners of the lands and waters where Perth city is situated today.Insights: the ANROWS podcast is part of ANROWS’s commitment to disseminating and supporting the application of the evidence base that addresses violence against women and their children in Australia.

Transforming legal understandings of intimate partner violence

Insights: The ANROWS podcast is part of Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety's commitment to disseminating and assisting in applying the evidence base for reducing violence against women and their children in Australia.

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