Jane Gilmore

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

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Nov. 9, 2020

Despite claims from certain sections of the media, last night’s Four Corners report on the toxic culture of the Canberra bubble’s is not a “sex scandal”. Labelling it as such erases the report’s disturbing revelations and frames them as a grubby…

Oct. 26, 2020

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‘Shocking findings’ on domestic violence are worth questioning

White Ribbon failed miserably in its first iteration in Australia and only recently started up again under new leadership. The name retains enormous goodwill. It is one of the few organisations that encourages men to be part of the solution to…

Oct. 19, 2020

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Tinder may be the facilitator, but predatory men are the threat

Imagine a dating app that asked you to review your dates. After every encounter you’d get a request for feedback, just as you do with so many other apps. You could rate your date out of five and add a comment. There would also be a rating for how…

Oct. 12, 2020

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Men and women lose when gendered stereotypes inform Government policy

Expecting either of the major political parties to ride a white horse into budget night and lay the severed head of the patriarchy at the feet of Australian women is a wildly unrealistic (albeit entertaining) fantasy. It does seem reasonable,…

Oct. 5, 2020

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Violence, poverty and a male dominated government

There’s a connection between poverty and violence. Not necessarily a causal link, but certainly a correlation. Poverty makes women more vulnerable to the coercive control that so often leads to violence. It also makes leaving dangerous relationships…

Sep. 22, 2020

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How the media and the law have made sex and rape interchangeable words

Last week The Sydney Morning Herald reported on a man’s sentencing for the crime of attempting to have sexual intercourse with a woman without her consent. In the headline he was a “sex attacker”. In the article what he did was a “sex attack”. The…

Sep. 13, 2020

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Tax cuts over stimulus: everyone loses but women lose even more

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says his plan to tackle Australia’s worst recession since World War II will likely be based on $158 billion in tax cuts, $10 billion on infrastructure spending, and industrial relations reform. The government also plans to…

Jul. 11, 2020

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So long shaving, Survivor and whirlwind romances: Melburnians on the lockdown habits they're going to ditch

By Antoun Issa, Calla Wahlquist, Jamila Rizvi, Wendy Syfret, Jane Gilmore, Meg Watson, Jo Walker, Jack Latimore,Stephanie Convery, Osman Faruqi and Amrita Hepi After just over a month of eased restrictions, Melbourne is facing its second round of…

May. 25, 2020

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I thought I could fill out the jobkeeper form in a day. Optimism is always a mistake

I am to blame! Not Treasury, but me. I am one of the 1,000 businesses that, according to the government, don’t know how to fill in a simple form, and are to blame for the $60bn jobkeeper error. Except, I am not. And I have the Australian Taxation…

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. 21, 2019

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Sally Rugg, Jack Charles, John Kinsella and others on what they're reading in September

How Powerful We Are Hachette Tell us about your book. How Powerful We Are is a story of dirty politics, sophisticated campaigning, raw personal tales and the historic social movement that achieved marriage equality. It’s an in-depth,…

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

The Age

'Fixed It' exposes tropes around violence against women

Aug. 31, 2019

the Guardian

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

The Age

'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 Age

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

The Sydney Morning Herald

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

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…