Run Against Violence

Amanda Tattersall has built a career helping ordinary Australians team up and win, as co-founder of GetUp, founder of the Sydney Alliance, host of the ChangeMakers podcast, and author of the new book Conscious Tribes. She has never worked in domestic and family violence. That's exactly why she closes this season.After five episodes with researchers, advocates and community builders, one message kept surfacing: prevention lives or dies with ordinary people. So for the finale, Kirrily sits down with the person who knows how ordinary people get organised, and turns everything this season has called for into something you can actually do.She starts by taking apart the biggest myth in social change: that it takes someone extraordinary. Movements, she argues, don't start with strangers. They start with the people already around you, at work, at school, on your street. And she lands on the idea the whole season has been walking toward: connection comes first, and when more of us take part, everything else follows.It's the final episode of the season, and it ends where we began: with an answer to the question episode one opened with. If we know so much about domestic and family violence, why haven't we ended it?If anything in this episode feels close to home, 1800RESPECT is there any time, day or night, 1800 737 732.Amanda Tattersall offers an extensive range of resources at amandatattersall.com and conscioustribes.net.For more resources and information on our events and programs, head to ⁠runagainstviolence.com⁠.If this episode got you thinking, don't keep it to yourself, send it to one person in your community who needs to hear it. And if you've got 30 seconds, leave us a review on Apple or Spotify. Every share and every review helps this show reach another community.This podcast was recorded on Gadigal and Wiradjuri land.CREDITSHost and producer: Kirrily DearExecutive producer and supervising editor: Pariya TaherzadehAudio editor: Graham HunterThe Run Against Violence podcast is independently funded by the Broken Hill to Sydney Team Chase. Every entry and every piece of merch powers the movement to eliminate family violence from our communities.

What happens when someone learns, for the first time in their life, that violence at home is a crime? Aurelia Rahman watches that moment happen in her work, and she describes it as the moment a person discovers they have rights.Aurelia is Head of Community Engagement and Relations at the Community Migrant Resource Centre, which has spent thirty years helping newly arrived migrants and refugees across western Sydney find their feet in a country where everything is unfamiliar: the language, the systems, even the idea that police are there to help.She takes Kirrily inside the first year of a newly arrived family's life and the pressure it puts on a home, then reveals how prevention actually reaches these families. She shares how her teams rebuild trust in police, why the hardest people to reach are the men, and her belief that Australia could become the first country in the world to build communities free of family violence.If anything in this episode feels close to home, 1800RESPECT is there any time, day or night, 1800 737 732.For more resources and information on our events and programs, head to runagainstviolence.com.If this episode got you thinking, don't keep it to yourself, send it to one person in your community who needs to hear it. And if you've got 30 seconds, leave us a review on Apple or Spotify. Every share and every review helps this show reach another community.This podcast was recorded on Gadigal and Wiradjuri land.CREDITSHost and producer: Kirrily DearExecutive producer and supervising editor: Pariya TaherzadehAudio editor: Graham HunterThe Run Against Violence podcast is independently funded by the Broken Hill to Sydney Team Chase. Every entry and every piece of merch powers the movement to eliminate family violence from our communities.

Australia's answer to domestic and family violence has mostly been rescue, pulling people out after the damage is done. Vital work, but it doesn't stop the water rising. This episode is about working upstream.Lou Hayes is the founder of CQ Healthy Families, a volunteer-run charity in Central Queensland doing the quiet work of holding a community's safety net together: a fuel voucher when a family is getting out, emergency accommodation, a security door fixed, and respectful relationships education delivered into ten high schools a year, coordinated entirely by volunteers in their spare time, with no funding behind it.Australia doesn't lack answers, the research, the plans and the royal commission recommendations already exist. What's missing, Lou argues, is a community that owns the problem together. She and Kirrily talk about what that looks like: family violence treated as everyone's business, the hard questions finally directed at the people using violence, and why Lou believes we can end something earlier generations wouldn't even name.If anything in this episode feels close to home, 1800RESPECT is there any time, day or night, 1800 737 732.For more resources and information on our events and programs, head to runagainstviolence.com.This podcast was recorded on Gadigal and Wiradjuri land.CREDITSHost and Producer: Kirrily DearExecutive Producer and Supervising Editor: Pariya TaherzadehAudio Editor: Graham HunterThe Run Against Violence podcast is independently funded by the Broken Hill to Sydney Team Chase. Every entry and every piece of merch powers the movement to eliminate family violence from our communities.

Why does a country that overwhelmingly condemns family violence keep producing it? The answer reaches well beyond individual choices, into our courts, our phones, and how far we've drifted from the people around us.Kirrily is joined by Nick Tebbey, National Executive Officer of Relationships Australia, an organisation that has been walking alongside Australians through the ups and downs of their relationships for more than 75 years. Together they trace where the conditions for violence actually come from: a fifty-year-old family law system that can be turned into a weapon by the very people it's meant to restrain, online worlds quietly reshaping what young men believe about respect, national data showing Australians lonelier and under more pressure than ever, and the vulnerabilities that alcohol, gambling and what we consume online pour fuel on.But this conversation lands somewhere unexpectedly hopeful: the evidence that knowing your neighbours is genuine protection against violence, why people who use violence can change, and what actually motivates them to. Plus a vision for Australia's future you won't hear anywhere else, involving a marinade.If anything in this episode feels close to home, 1800RESPECT is there any time, day or night, 1800 737 732.For more resources and information on our events and programs, head to runagainstviolence.com.This podcast was recorded on Gadigal and Wiradjuri land.CREDITSHost and Producer: Kirrily DearExecutive Producer and Supervising Editor: Pariya TaherzadehAudio Editor: Graham HunterThe Run Against Violence podcast is independently funded by the Broken Hill to Sydney Team Chase. Every entry and every piece of merch powers the movement to eliminate family violence from our communities.

When almost everything designed to help children affected by domestic and family violence is built by adults, for adults, what does support look like through a child's eyes?Ruby Allen knows, because she lived it. At 19, she's the founder of Kids of Purple, a youth-led initiative she started as a Year 10 school assignment, a place where kids affected by family violence can see their experience recognised in their own language and find help that actually makes sense to them. She's the Gold Coast Young Australian of the Year, a law student, and she's already shaping how organisations like Brisbane Catholic Education, the Queensland Department of Housing and the Queensland Victims Commissioner think about what children need.In this episode, Ruby and Kirrily get into why "call a helpline" doesn't work for many kids, the shame children carry and what it does to their sense of who they are, how to have a clear, honest conversation with the young people in your life about what's okay and what isn't, and why young people need to be co-designing the solutions built for them.If anything in this episode feels close to home, 1800RESPECT is there any time, day or night, 1800 737 732.For more resources and information on our events and programs, head to runagainstviolence.com.If this episode got you thinking, don't keep it to yourself, send it to one person in your community who needs to hear it. And if you've got 30 seconds, leave us a review on Apple or Spotify. Every share and every review helps this show reach another community.This podcast was recorded on Gadigal and Wiradjuri land.CREDITS: Host & Producer: Kirrily DearExecutive Producer & Supervising Editor: Pariya TaherzadehAudio Editor: Graham HunterThe Run Against Violence podcast is independently funded by the Broken Hill to Sydney Team Chase. Every entry and every piece of merch powers the movement to eliminate family violence from our communities.