Engender Equality

04/06/2026

❗️LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER❗️

📍Breaking the trap: Working with clients experiencing coercive control
📍Delivered online - Thursday 25 June 2026 10:00-4:00
📍Cost - $300

Working in family violence requires depth, skill and ongoing learning.

Our highly-regarded training is designed to support practitioners to strengthen their response, deepen their understanding, and build safer, more effective practice.

Our training team will share their extensive expertise and experience in the fields of gender equality and family violence, guided by research evidence and knowledge enriched through our work across the family violence sector.

Spend your PD before EOFY and secure your place now.

👉 Get in quick
👉 Book now - https://events.humanitix.com/copy-of-engender-equality-family-violence-training-breaking-the-trap-working-with-clients-experiencing-coercive-control

04/06/2026

AusAlert is a new national warning system that uses the latest technology to send emergency messages to compatible mobile devices.

Before it launches in October 2026, the system will be tested in communities across Australia - Launceston has been chosen as a test location.

Around 11 am on Monday 15 June 2026 if you are in or around Launceston, your mobile devices, such as mobile phones, tablets and smart watches, may receive a test alert.

The AusAlert test in your area is a Priority Alert. It will vibrate and include a loud siren-like sound that lasts about 10 seconds.

If receiving the test could cause you or someone you know to feel unsafe, visit the AusAlert website at ausalert.gov.au to find out how to turn a Priority Alert off on your device.

To learn what an AusAlert sounds like, visit ausalert.gov.au

02/06/2026

Alina Thomas, CEO spoke to the Mercury about an everyday tragedy in Tasmania - women under the control of abusive men committing crimes at their request and ending up in jail themselves.

"Women under the control of abusive men are committing crimes at their request, and ending up in jail themselves.

These women, who are victims of men's violence, were not supported by any specialised services.

How might things have been different, if these women had been able to reach out to somewhere discreet and entrusted?"

➡️Read the full article here:
https://engenderequality.org.au/news-item-the-mercury-chilling-pattern-sees-abused-women-in-tasmania-jailed-after-being-coerced-to-commit-crimes/

It’s an everyday tragedy in Tasmania – but women under the control of abusive men are committing crimes at their request, and ending up in jail themselves.

31/05/2026

Knowing what to expect can make a big difference.

Our new brochure, Making the Call, provides clear, easy-to-understand information about Police processes, legal options, and support services for people experiencing family violence.

It’s designed to support people to feel informed, not overwhelmed—and to promote that help is available.

Take a look or share with someone who might find it useful.
📥 https://engenderequality.org.au/making-the-call-brochure/

28/05/2026

❗️LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER❗️

📍Walking alongside victim-survivors: Building family violence practice skills
📍Delivered online - Friday 12th June 2026 10:00-4:00
📍Cost - $250

Working in family violence requires depth, skill and ongoing learning.

Our highly-regarded training is designed to support practitioners to strengthen their response, deepen their understanding, and build safer, more effective practice.

Our training team will share their extensive expertise and experience in the fields of gender equality and family violence, guided by research evidence and knowledge enriched through our work across the family violence sector.

Spend your PD before EOFY and secure your place now.
👉 Get in quick
👉 Book now - https://events.humanitix.com/walking-alongside-victim-survivors-building-family-violence-practice-skills

23/05/2026

Is your organisation unknowingly reproducing inequality?

Sometimes as leaders, we must question whether our systems contribute to unintended harm. While organisations do not perpetrate family violence, they can reinforce environments where gender inequality and inadequate responses to victim-survivors persist. When people who use violence continue abuse through gaps in organisational systems, it signals a need for action. Systemic collusion can occur when organisations enable or compound abuse through action or inaction. Leadership is critical to ensure systems are safe, equitable and responsive and contribute to preventing family violence. Engender Equality can help your organisation play its part.

For more information, visit https://engenderequality.org.au.

22/05/2026

‼️APPLICATIONS CLOSING SOON‼️

Join Engender Equality as a Family Violence Practitioner/Community Educator (Burnie + outreach).

Help deliver trauma-informed support, facilitate groups, and work with communities to strengthen responses to family violence.

https://engenderequality.org.au/position-description-engender-equality-family-violence-practitioner-community-educator-nw-tasmania-burnie-2/

📅 Applications close: 2 June 2026

📧 Apply: [email protected]

Be part of a team working towards a Tasmania free from violence. 💜

Engender Equality offers therapeutic counselling to people affected by family or domestic violence in Tasmania. This position is based in the NW, primarily Burnie and is offered on a full-time basis. Please forward your complete application by COB 2 June 2026. DOWNLOAD PrevNext

20/05/2026

To read the report visit: https://engenderequality.org.au/publication-delayed-support-heightened-harm-the-impacts-of-long-wait-times-for-specialist-family-violence-services-april-2026/

20/05/2026

Engender Equality offers our deepest condolences and support to the communities impacted by the murder of a woman by her husband, who also suicided, last week in Campania. Also, to the communities impacted by the death of a woman in New Town, who was allegedly murdered by the man she lived with.

You are not alone. We stand with you.

If these events have made you concerned about what you or a loved one is experiencing in a relationship, please visit Engender's website for information, resources and referrals, including into our therapeutic support services: https://engenderequality.org.au/

Immediate 24/7 telephone support is also available from 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732) and Lifeline (13 11 14).

If you are worried about your behaviour in a relationship or are supporting a man who is using violence, you can connect with the Men's Referral Service (1300 766 491).

Violence against women is preventable. If we work together we can end all family, domestic and gender-based violence.

18/05/2026

Engender Equality’s training workshop, Breaking the Trap: Working with Clients Experiencing Coercive Control, is designed by our experts in coercive control and family violence and is grounded in our experience working with victim-survivors for over 35 years. It aims to equip professionals with the knowledge and tools to recognise and respond to coercive control within their clients across frontline women’s services.

Coercive Control is often considered at being ‘at the heart’ of all family violence presentations in its function of using covert and insidious behaviour to exert fear, power and control over another in a relationship. Coercive control emerges in ways and patterns that victim-survivors may not be aware of, as they experience a level of control that can eradicate their self-esteem, agency, autonomy and freedom. As specialist family violence practitioners, we are all too aware of the significant impact coercive control has on victim-survivors, and the feelings of worthlessness, self-blame and lack of confidence that are often carried with them well past the immediate danger of an abusive relationship.

This Coercive Control Masterclass is aimed at front-line services (staff and managers) to build skills and awareness of the complex presentations of family violence, particularly coercive control.

Delivered from the position of a specialist family violence practitioner, the training package explores insights from research and practice, to improve service response and promote victim-survivor safety.

Delivered over this 6-hour training workshop session, the Breaking the Trap training workshop has been developed to:

Support practitioners in client facing roles to apply the theory of coercive control, particularly with clients whose experience of abuse do not include physical violence

To share evidence and insights that may help clients identify coercive control for themselves and find ways to respond to it.

To guide professionals in all settings who will, in the course of their work, come into contact with people impacted by coercive control.

To supplement the Engender Equality video series on coercive control, available on the Engender Equality website and You Tube Channel.

As part of the training delivered, all participants will receive a digital copy of the Breaking the Trap: Working with Clients Experiencing Coercive Control workbooks, which includes practice guidance and tools to use with clients in practice.

Please note this training is a masterclass workshop, and requires participants to have either attended the Recognise, Respond, Refer workshop, or have extensive experience within the family violence sector and knowledge of the types and presentations of family violence.

This training has been capped at 15 participants, per best practice for online adult education and training. We do have a waitlist arranged and will consider an additional workshop if required.

Tickets available: https://events.humanitix.com/copy-of-engender-equality-family-violence-training-breaking-the-trap-working-with-clients-experiencing-coercive-control