Jane Gilmore

Freelance journalist, author of Fixed It - Violence and the representation of women

Oct 5, 2019

The Saturday Paper

The untold stories of family violence

Domestic violence is the most important story in Australia. As Margaret Simons, associate professor of journalism at Monash University, has said, “The statistics alone tell us this is Australia’s biggest crime, health and human rights story. It is…

Sep 3, 2019

The Sydney Morning Herald

'Fixed It' exposes tropes around violence against women

Violence myths about rape are the preconceptions and subconscious biases we’ve learned through millions of tiny interactions with the world. Every advertisement that depicts women as passive sexual objects, every movie where the female villain is a…

Sep 3, 2019

'Fixed It' exposes tropes around violence against women

Violence myths about rape are the preconceptions and subconscious biases we’ve learned through millions of tiny interactions with the world. Every advertisement that depicts women as passive sexual objects, every movie where the female villain is a…

Aug 31, 2019

Rape is not 'sex', and 'broken hearts' don't cause murder. Women are dying – and language matters

In July 2013 a woman called Tracy Connelly was murdered in Melbourne. It made headlines in most of the national newspapers, all of which used some variation of the phrase “St Kilda prostitute killed”. The story dropped off the front page of every…

Aug 14, 2019

'We have to believe we can change this situation now' on violence

Additionally, the Personal Safety Survey estimates over 370,000 women are subjected to violence from men each year, which means nearly four million women will suffer sexual or physical violence while we still and wait for gender equality to ride in…

Aug 14, 2019

The Sydney Morning Herald

'We have to believe we can change this situation now' on violence

The fourth stage of the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children 2010–2022 was officially released late last week and hidden in all the puffery and announceables are some deeply concerning details. The report says the…

Aug 5, 2019

The Sydney Morning Herald

If feels like compassion fatigue has set in about violence against women

Last Friday in Melbourne, 12 schoolchildren watched as their teachers tried desperately to save a woman outside a burning house who was screaming that she had been stabbed. The teachers and children had been bike riding through Officer, in the city's…

Aug 5, 2019

If feels like compassion fatigue has set in about violence against women

Last Friday in Melbourne, 12 schoolchildren watched as their teachers tried desperately to save a woman outside a burning house who was screaming that she had been stabbed. The teachers and children had been bike riding through Officer, in the city's…

Jul 19, 2019

The Sydney Morning Herald

All those moments of fear and pain we don’t hear about matter

Most murders make news. Not always front page news, but they’ll get a mention in a publication somewhere. It’s how Destroy the Joint’s Counting Dead Women project can report that 26 women have been killed so far this year. It is important those…

Jul 19, 2019

All those moments of fear and pain we don’t hear about matter

Most murders make news. Not always front page news, but they’ll get a mention in a publication somewhere. It’s how Destroy the Joint’s Counting Dead Women project can report that 26 women have been killed so far this year. It is important those…

Jul 11, 2019

The Sydney Morning Herald

It shouldn't be 'Why doesn't she leave?', but 'Why does he abuse her?'

Jess Hill’s investigations into domestic violence and the family court won Walkley awards (deservedly so) and make for truly heartbreaking reading. Her new book, See What You Made Me Do, is the culmination of four years of forensic research and…

Jul 11, 2019

It shouldn't be 'Why doesn't she leave?', but 'Why does he abuse her?'

Jess Hill’s investigations into domestic violence and the family court won Walkley awards (deservedly so) and make for truly heartbreaking reading. Her new book, See What You Made Me Do, is the culmination of four years of forensic research and…

Jul 4, 2019

If we demand abusive men change, we have to accept they can

What happens when a man who has been convicted of a family violence offence expresses what appears to be genuine remorse and desire to change? Particularly when the man is a public figure and his choice to commit the offence has therefore become a…

Jul 4, 2019

The Sydney Morning Herald

If we demand abusive men change, we have to accept they can

What happens when a man who has been convicted of a family violence offence expresses what appears to be genuine remorse and desire to change? Particularly when the man is a public figure and his choice to commit the offence has therefore become a…

Jun 27, 2019

The problem with telling women to 'avoid stress' for better health

Avoid stress. You should, you know. You’ve probably already heard it from a doctor but, for the rare woman who hasn’t, Harvard Medical School has got you covered. Their website warns that women in particular suffer from workplace stress and caregiver…

Jun 27, 2019

The Sydney Morning Herald

The problem with telling women to 'avoid stress' for better health

Avoid stress. You should, you know. You’ve probably already heard it from a doctor but, for the rare woman who hasn’t, Harvard Medical School has got you covered. Their website warns that women in particular suffer from workplace stress and caregiver…

Jun 20, 2019

The lead up to menopause can be very uncomfortable and poorly understood

Perimenopause could be causing suicide in women between 45 and 54 years of age. Or it might not. It could be causing chronic insomnia in midlife women, which in turn can lead to all kinds of physical and mental health problems. Or it might not. It…

Jun 20, 2019

The Sydney Morning Herald

The lead up to menopause can be very uncomfortable and poorly understood

Perimenopause could be causing suicide in women between 45 and 54 years of age. Or it might not. It could be causing chronic insomnia in midlife women, which in turn can lead to all kinds of physical and mental health problems. Or it might not. It…

Jun 7, 2019

The Sydney Morning Herald

A possible 'link' between menopause and Alzheimer's is scaring women, including me

A long interview with US neuroscientist Dr Lisa Mosconi on the link between menopause and Alzheimer’s disease has been doing the rounds on social media this week, and it’s scaring the bejeezers out of many women over 40. Alzheimer’s affects around…

Jun 7, 2019

A possible 'link' between menopause and Alzheimer's is scaring women, including me

A long interview with US neuroscientist Dr Lisa Mosconi on the link between menopause and Alzheimer’s disease has been doing the rounds on social media this week, and it’s scaring the bejeezers out of many women over 40. Alzheimer’s affects around…