Our fortnightly selection of domestic violence media in local and international news, popular culture and opinion.
This edition includes media coverage of the findings of the recent ?inquests into the deaths of Lynette Phillips and Ben Pappas. The coroner found that Pappas had killed Lynette Phillips and had then committed suicide when her body was discovered in the Yarra river in March 2007.
The coroner recommended that a feasibility study should?be done on establishing a specialist family violence on-call service for general practitioners to provide them with advice on dealing with complex family violence situations.
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?Psychotic? skateboarding champ killed ex-girlfriend
11 December 2012, The Age
THE State Coroner says the case of former skateboarding champion Ben Pappas, who murdered his ex-girlfriend before taking his own life, has raised some deeply complex issues for health-care professionals.
Law to protect women, children
11 December 2012, Fiji Times
VANUAKULA Village in Tavua has implemented a new law to provide greater protection to women and children.
Coroner blames champion for ex-girlfriend?s death
10 December 2012, ABC News
A Melbourne coroner wants a study conducted on the feasibility of a hotline for doctors who believe their patients are trapped by domestic violence.
Paramedic training in domestic violence inadequate
10 December 2012, Brisbane Times
PARAMEDICS need more training to support victims of domestic violence, a landmark pilot study has found.
Coroner calls for GP help in domestic violence
10 December 2012, ABC 7:30 Report?(video)
A young woman?s death has led a Victorian coroner to call for a help line for GPs dealing with patients trapped by domestic violence, while legal experts call for greater focus on victims.
Champ kills girlfriend before drowning himself
10 December 2012, ABC News
Victoria?s Chief Coroner has called for a hotline to be set up for doctors who suspect family violence among their patients.
McFadden?s ?pathetic? domestic violence tweet causes upset
9 December 2012, Sydney Morning Herald
?THE Irish singer Brian McFadden has enraged anti-domestic violence campaigners with a tweet saying women who stayed in violent relationships were ?pathetic?.
Kasandra Perkins did not have to die
5 December 2012, The Nation
When the media reports domestic violence murders as random tragedies?or when individuals say the perpetrator must have ?snapped??they enable a culture of violence against women. Because when you don?t contextualize this violence as part of structural misogyny, you give credence to the myth that there was nothing anyone could have done to stop it.
Image credit
?Image sourced from ABC News video
Source: http://www.dvrcv.org.au/media-wrap-28/
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