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Kathleen Maltzahn

@kathleenmaltzahn.bsky.social
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CEO of Sexual Assault Services Victoria, Deputy Chair National Association of Services Against Sexual Assault. And of course have plenty of views that go well beyond the remit of my employment.

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Thinking of the people of the towns of Mortlake, Edenhope, Swan Hill, Apollo Bay, Warrnambool, Inglewood, Ballarat and others. Of that grim map of the western districts of Victoria and all of the children who lived in those towns who were let down. There are hundreds and that is a national shame.
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Kathleen Maltzahn @kathleenmaltzahn.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Women constantly do ‘safety work’ to avoid sexual violence, knowing odds are we’ll be blamed if that fails. We have to have the (impossible) ‘right amount of panic’. If you’re brown, and a lesbian, even less space is ‘right’; you have to be both right and scrupulously polite. #SamKerr #notguilty
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Kathleen Maltzahn @kathleenmaltzahn.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Sitting around after a day inexpertly preparing for fire, discussing how at-risk we are, when we hear the un-ignorable fire-truck siren. Freeze. Panic. Then realise #Santa Claus Is Coming To Town & the kids up the road are about to get a present. #antipodean #surealism #truestory #grampians
A photo of a peak in the Grampians (Mt Abrupt/Mad-Dadjug), with sprinklers watering the Dunkeld football ground in front of it. Large swathes of the Grampians are being ravaged by bushfires, & with greatly rising temperatures the next two days, there is great fear that the fire will intensify.
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Kathleen Maltzahn @kathleenmaltzahn.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
If the fed government has a KPI for the percentage of country that burns while they continue their climate action go-slow, there should be bonuses for them at Christmas. Meanwhile, we watch with sickening dread the incineration of the glorious Grampians. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A photo of part of the Grampians, in the west Victoria, Australia. Part of this area currently has a runaway bushfire.
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Bloomineck @bloomineck.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I've been on bsky too much today! Before I go, some posts about the importance of grass roots feminism. theconversation.com/squatting-ki...
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Squatting, kidnapping and collaboration: Australia’s first women’s shelters were acts of radical grassroots feminism
50 years ago, the first shelter for women experiencing domestic violence was established in Sydney. It’s opening was far from a ribbon-cutting affair, but it’s legacy is long and powerful.
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Kathleen Maltzahn @kathleenmaltzahn.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
@sasvic.bsky.social go.bsky.app/RjGuuMJ
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Must read work on so called rape "victim withdrawals" and how recording practices undermine confidence of victims. "survivors are routinely described as ‘unwilling’, ‘uncooperative’, ‘reluctant’, ‘resisting’, and ‘disengaged’. This is a language rarely, if ever, used in descriptions of the suspect"
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Kathleen Maltzahn @kathleenmaltzahn.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Devastating. And important questions to be answered about Ms Bell’s reference to #trafficking. What terrible violence. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
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Murdered, stuffed in a fridge and driven across Melbourne. What police allege happened to Isla Bell
Police allege the death of 19-year-old Isla Bell was caught on a sophisticated CCTV system, which then captured her “sugar daddy” trying to dispose of her body.
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Kathleen Maltzahn @kathleenmaltzahn.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
It’s surprising how many people, who are strong advocates for #regulation of, say, carbon polluting industries, are all for self-regulation when it comes to social media. I think they 1) misread the level of parents’ anxiety about sm & 2) trivialise the way it’s used for #csa & other deep harm.
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Michael Salter @mike-salter.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Thanks. I'd prefer that social media platforms are child safe. But they aren't, and they won't be for the foreseeable future. The people saying we should slow down, not rush into age verification, etc, are not the people at the frontlines of this issue, swamped by increased victims month on month.
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Michael Salter @mike-salter.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Perhaps if academics and commentators had paid closer attention to the scale and hierarchy of online harms to children, they wouldn't have been taken by surprise like this?
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Michael Salter @mike-salter.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The Australian govt is introducing legislation today to ban under 16s from social media, in the wake of calls for them to slow down the reforms and go through a more thorough policy development process. But it's too late. All state and territory govts have signed on and so has the opposition.
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Michael Salter @mike-salter.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
one problem amongst many, so that academics can move on to talk about the aspects of online sociality that they really want to study. But CSA is such an acute violation that it shouldn't be dispensed with in this way, and there are empirical, political and moral consequences for doing so.
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Michael Salter @mike-salter.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Child sexual abuse raises such strong moral imperatives that it is often "bracketed out" of discussion, so that people can talk about other things that interest them. For instance, academic discussion of children's "digital rights" and "digital citizenship" often relativises the harms of CSA as just
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 19/11/2024
Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: "...the Australian Institute of Marine Science said one area around Cooktown and Lizard Island had lost more than a third of its live hard coral – the biggest annual drop in 39 years of monitoring." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Graveyard of corals’ found after extreme heat and cyclones hit northern Great Barrier Reef
Marine scientists say one area around Cooktown and Lizard Island had lost more than a third of its live hard coral after bleaching event
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Kathleen Maltzahn @kathleenmaltzahn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Heartening. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Jail time slashed for Victorian woman who killed abusive husband after feeding him drug-laced biscuits
Rebecca Payne’s appeal came after trial heard she was forced to have tattoo of man’s name and was barred from going to son’s funeral
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Michael Salter @mike-salter.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Do you work in the sexual assault sector or provide support to survivors of child sexual abuse? We want to hear about your experiences with survivors of online child sexual abuse and exploitation. Pls fill out this brief survey! (Just for Australians) unsw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
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Kathleen Maltzahn @kathleenmaltzahn.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
A sobering dissection of the tactics used to try to silence and scare women who won’t dare to have opinions - try to get them sacked, threaten them and those they love, signal to your supporters that this person is to be punished. Sickening.
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Jenna Price @jennaprice.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Back in 2012, a bunch of us decided we'd had enough of the way Alan Jones talked about women. We decided to #destroythejoint. Much love to all those women and men who helped. www.smh.com.au/national/i-t...
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I took on Alan Jones. I survived, but the backlash terrified me
Everyone knew that Alan Jones was the most powerful man in media. But how he wielded that power created fear - real fear.
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Kathleen Maltzahn @kathleenmaltzahn.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
There’s been another arrest of a high profile Australian man accused of sexual violence. The legal process will unfold in its own way. But there’s a broader pattern to comment on. #mvaw #mvawg #csa
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Kathleen Maltzahn @kathleenmaltzahn.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
This is so interesting. Anyone on here involved in #avatar #psychosis #therapy? Or have interesting articles about it? I was surprised to learn clinicians commonly don’t ask what voices have to say. www.theguardian.com/news/2024/oc...
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‘You tried to tell yourself I wasn’t real’: what happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads?
The long read: In avatar therapy, a clinician gives voice to their patients’ inner demons. For some of the participants in a new trial, the results have been astounding
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Victoria Smith @glosswitch.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I don't think I've ever seen a 30yo victim of sexual assault described as "young" www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
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Pelicot trial: young vineyard worker proposed drugging and raping his own mother
Video showed Charly A, one of 51 men accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot, discussing plan with Dominique Pelicot
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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Following the High Court decision in Bird that found a Catholic priest was not technically an employee and so the Church could not be vicariously liable (causing despair in survivors across the country), Julia Gillard has urged states to legislate. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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Gillard urges states to act after ‘deeply concerning’ ruling that Catholic Church is not liable in abuse case
The former Australian prime minister has spoken out after legal experts said the High Court decision could cast doubts over cases against religious orders nationwide.
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Kathleen Maltzahn @kathleenmaltzahn.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
When someone comes along and puts into words the many reasons why so much internet discourse is repugnant. Worth a read. Y’all. theupheaval.substack.com/p/on-millenn...
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On Millennial Snot
About the distinctively obnoxious way our elites talk down to us now
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Kathleen Maltzahn @kathleenmaltzahn.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Fighters ❤️ www.theage.com.au/sport/cricke...
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Afghanistan women’s refugee team to play in Melbourne after three-year fight
Pleas for a refugee Afghanistan women’s cricket team to get to play together have finally been answered by Australian cricket.
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Kathleen Maltzahn @kathleenmaltzahn.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Yep, too many Failed Fletcher Jones retail assistant - although never forgot the bloke who brought in a picture of his Mercedes to colour match to a tie Trekking tour leader Campaign manager Cleaner Electorate officer Fast food deliverer TAFE teacher
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Fiona Vera Gray @veragraf.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I wrote for @brisunipress.bsky.social on how Saoirse Ronan casually revealed the ways that something which seems so absurd to most men is part of most women's daily routine www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2024/11/13/w...
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Why Saoirse Ronan’s comments on women’s safety hit a nerve - Transforming Society
Fiona Vera-Gray, author of 'The Right Amount of Panic', reflects on why Saoirse Ronan's viral comment about women’s constant focus on safety resonated deeply, leaving her male co-guests speechless.
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Kathleen Maltzahn @kathleenmaltzahn.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
We’re looking at the High Court decision (Bird vs DP). I have yet to read it, but based on the reports, I can’t get over its ahistoricism. The idea that, in 1971, a priest’s power, and their role as church representative, was triggered only by, what, a contract issued following a job interview?
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Tim Newburn @timnewburn.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I’m now aware that I just wasn’t seeing a sufficient number of bollards on Twitter or coming anything quite as wonderful/mad as the #WorldBollardAssociation. Keep up the good work!
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Fiona Vera Gray @veragraf.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Small start pack on researchers, activists, journos, anyone really working on violence against women and girls. Message me to add yourself/others. Let's try to find folk on here! go.bsky.app/4u3Rk6g
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