Tag: Jill Meagher

‘They put vile posters in my face about sex acts that triggered what happened to me as a child, even when they knew I was a survivor’: Dr Caroline Taylor on the impact of being abused at ASASE Summit

Callous cruelty and disregard for a survivor of violence, as mob descends on Melbourne summit Professor S. Caroline Taylor AM is an internationally esteemed academic and researcher who provides specialist evidence in child abuse cases.  She is recognised as one of Australia’s leading experts and consultants in the field of child and adult sexual violence and […]

‘I paid for her, I can do what I want with her’: No you can’t saysTom Meagher at anti-prostitution campaign launch

Prostitution: We Don’t Buy It Launched this week in Ireland, ‘Prostitution – We Don’t Buy It’  is an Irish movement organised by The Reach Project, encouraging men not to buy prostituted women. The new movement was launched by Tom Meagher, bereaved husband of Melbourne woman Jill Meagher who was murdered in September 2012 by serial […]

All these women might still be alive if their killers had not been paroled

Parole board failures a matter of life and death When murderer John Coombes was convicted for a second murder, what did the Adult Parole Board do? Let him out of prison in 2007 to murder his friend, foster mother Raechel Betts, and throw her body parts into the sea. When violent offender William Watkins was […]

Tracy could not have been Wendy or Jill, but she could have been any other woman in prostitution

Prostituted women are the ones at the coalface of the misogyny and pornography-fuelled attitudes Caroline Norma Commentators this week have been falling over themselves to decry the ‘hypocritical’ public quiet over the murder of St Kilda prostituted woman ‘Tracy’, compared to the attention Jill Meagher’s death attracted last year. Wendy Squires wrote that,  even though […]