This one-hour webinar is based on the findings of the WESNET’s Second National Survey of Technology Abuse and Domestic Violence in Australia and other recent research by QUT on technology abuse and children. It explores the ways in which abusers use young people’s technology as a part of domestic and family violence and practical ways […]
Keeping women on tech is vital during domestic violence. The SafeConnections program is a highly successful partnership between an NGO, a telecommunications provider and the Australian government which provides new smartphones to domestic violence victims. The program trains shelter workers about how perpetrators misuse smartphones and empowers survivors to set up and use their new […]
This webinar covers the ways in how victim-survivors may be located, monitored, and surveilled through technology by abusers. It explores the more commonly used tactics including tracking through purpose-built trackers, inbuilt applications (apps) like ‘Find My’, or through viewing account data, through to the more complex tactics such as accessing the backend of accounts and […]
Technology-facilitated abuse (“tech abuse”) in the context of intimate partner violence (IPV) describes an incident or a pattern of incidents in which digital systems are used with the intention to monitor, control, coerce, threaten, degrade, and harm a victim/survivor. Tech abuse, therefore, intersects closely with other forms of IPV and family and domestic abuse, as […]
Join Us for an Inspiring International Women's Day Event! Wellsprings for Women, in partnership with Chisholm Institute, invites you to a powerful International Women’s Day Seminar on Tuesday, 25th March 2025, from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM at the Chisholm Institute Auditorium, Dandenong. This year, we focus on Promoting Respectful Relationships, exploring: Coercive control, Tech-facilitated abuse Human trafficking and forced marriage, Online sexual […]
