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Women's and Girls Emergency Centre is feminist, grassroots not-for-profit organisation and frontline service supporting women in crisis and working with our community to advocate for social change.

29/10/2026

It's Children's Week 🧸

Follow along with Christina, WAGEC's Child Safeguarding Coordinator, as she explains what Children's Week is all about and how WAGEC prioritises the rights of children in our work every day.

29/10/2026

Another woman allegedly killed. Another life lost to male violence.

Our heartfelt condolences go to her family, friends and community 💜

Enough is enough.

Male violence against women and children is a national emergency. We cannot keep responding with words alone while women’s lives are at stake.

We need more than thoughts and prayers. We need action. That means sustained investment in prevention, early intervention, frontline services, safe housing and recovery support.

The time for action is now. Women’s and children’s lives depend on it.

Source: Australian Femicide Watch

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For counselling and support contact:
1800 RESPECT 1800 737 732
NSW Mental Health Line 1800 011 511
Lifeline 13 11 14
Kids Helpline 1800 55 1800
Beyond Blue 1800 512 348
Full Stop 1800 385 578
13YARN 13 92 76 See less

27/10/2026

Last week we asked the question: what happens when a woman leaves prison?

This week, we’re exploring some of the core insights from our new Walk With Her framework.

Drawing on frontline expertise and lived experience, Walk With Her gives practitioners the tools to help build trust and walk alongside women as they work towards safety, housing and connection.

It’s about reflecting on our own assumptions, biases and power. Knowing our strengths and limits. And understanding we don’t have all the answers.

And most importantly, to Walk With Her means to see Her as the expert in Her own life.

Explore the full framework via 🔗 link in our bio
wagec.org.au/walk-with-her

25/10/2026

Do you know the difference?

Perpetrators often use ‘setting boundaries’ as a way to excuse their controlling behaviours.

The key difference is a that a boundary sets limits for yourself and coercive control aims to control someone else.

➡️ Swipe through to make sure you can spot the difference.

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If this brings anything up for you, you can contact:
1800 RESPECT 1800 737 732
NSW Mental Health Line 1800 011 511
Lifeline 13 11 14
Kids Helpline 1800 55 1800
Beyond Blue 1800 512 348
Full Stop 1800 385 578
13YARN 13 92 76

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23/10/2026

Each pair represents a woman or child whose life was taken by domestic and family violence. The shoes are laid one at a time, in silence, by people who work in this every day.

By midday, Martin Place is full of them.

Join us to honour and remember the women and children killed by domestic and family violence.

Our Vigil is supported by a performance from Tim Minchin, musician, writer and actor. Main speaker Tarang Chawla, one of Australia's leading voices working to end men's violence against women and children.

Wednesday 25 November, 12pm. Martin Place, Sydney C*D, between Pitt and Castlereagh St.

21/10/2026

Coercive control isn’t one incident. It’s a pattern of controlling behaviours.

In Australia, 23% of women have experienced emotional abuse, and 16% have experienced economic abuse.

These forms of abuse can be part of coercive control, which doesn’t always look the way we expect.

No two experiences are the same.

It can look like (but not limited to) physical and sexual violence, tech-facilitated abuse, but also more covert controlling behaviours like intimidation, stalking or emotional abuse that make it difficult to see from the outside.

It often slowly escalates over time which can make it difficult to identify the pattern early on.

Experiencing coercive control can come with feelings of guilt and shame, especially when these feelings are usually weaponised by perpetrators.

But we want victim-survivors to know that this is never your fault and support is available.

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If this brings anything up for you, you can contact:
1800 RESPECT 1800 737 732
NSW Mental Health Line 1800 011 511
Lifeline 13 11 14
Kids Helpline 1800 55 1800
Beyond Blue 1800 512 348
Full Stop 1800 385 578
13YARN 13 92 76

20/10/2026

Women deserve to be safe everywhere.

At home, at work and in public life. Every woman deserves to live, work and have her voice heard without fear of violence or intimidation.

We are deeply concerned by reports of the alleged attack on Dr Helen Haines. Violence against women doesn’t happen in isolation. It is shaped by attitudes and behaviours that silence, intimidate and undermine women, and that too often go unchallenged.

Violence against women is a national emergency. It is not inevitable, and it is not acceptable. We all have a responsibility to challenge the behaviours that enable it and work towards a future where every woman can live free from violence.

Our thoughts are with Dr Helen Haines, her family, staff and community. 💜

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You don't have to go through it alone. For counselling and support contact:
1800 RESPECT 1800 737 732
NSW Mental Health Line 1800 011 511
Lifeline 13 11 14
Kids Helpline 1800 55 1800
Beyond Blue 1800 512 348
Full Stop 1800 385 578
13YARN 13 92 76

19/10/2026

Leaving prison should mean the chance to rebuild, not another cycle of harm.

1 in 3 women enter custody from homelessness or unstable housing.

1 in 2 women exit custody into homelessness.

Aboriginal women are imprisoned at rates 22x higher than non-indigenous women.

Our new ‘Walk With Her’ Framework draws on frontline expertise and lived experience to help practitioners build trust and walk alongside women leaving incarceration as they work towards safety, housing and connection.

Women don’t need to be fixed. They need to be understood. How we walk alongside women after incarceration matters.

We know this is part of her story, never the whole story.

Explore the framework via the link in our bio or visit wagec.org.au/walk-with-her

13/10/2026

These are not just statistics.

They are our mothers.
Our daughters.
Our sisters.
Our cousins.
Our friends.
OUR CHILDREN.

In over just 48 hours in September, three women and one child lost their lives to domestic and family violence.

And across Australia:

1 in 3 women have experienced physical violence since the age of 15.

1 in 5 women have experienced sexual violence since the age of 15.

Behind every statistic is a life. Women and children whose lives have been taken by violence. Women and children whose stories must not be forgotten.

On 25 November, we will gather in Martin Place for Unite Against Violence: No More Empty Shoes to honour and remember those whose lives have been taken and to stand together for a future where this is no longer accepted as inevitable.

How many more lives?
How many more empty shoes?

We cannot accept this as inevitable. We need change. We need action. We need an end to violence.

Stand with us. Stand against violence.

25 November 2026 | Martin Place, Sydney
Unite Against Violence: No More Empty Shoes

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Personal Safety Survey 2021–22.

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Redfern, NSW

Opening Hours

Monday	8:30am - 4:30pm
Tuesday	8:30am - 4:30pm
Wednesday	8:30am - 4:30pm
Thursday	8:30am - 4:30pm
Friday	8:30am - 4:30pm

Website

http://www.wagec.org.au/

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