After two long years of the global COVID-19 pandemic, so many of us find ourselves tired and lacking energy for even basic tasks. Facing a new year does not fill us with the joy of possibility as it...
Category: Trauma
‘The effects of this toxic industry are everywhere’
Content notification: This post discusses sexual violence and trauma. 'Body Shell Girl' is a memoir in verse about the first two years of a decade that Australian Rose Hunter spent in the sex...
The imperceptible line between life and death
Content notification: This essay discusses grief and medical trauma. When my colleague died walking to work one morning, I passed an unexpected sympathy around: ‘When you are dying, you do not know...
Lismore floods: ‘We escaped with our lives’
After her Lismore flat was flooded in February, independent disability carer Lauren De Groot is living in a borrowed caravan with her young daughter, Freya. Her losses are mounting up. Just last...
Research wrap: In the shadows of war
BroadAgenda Research Wrap is your monthly window into academia. We scour the journals so you don’t have to. This is not the Research Wrap I wanted to write. I wanted to write something...
A Summer of Hope: Amani’s story
After two long years of the global COVID-19 pandemic, so many of us find ourselves tired and lacking energy for even basic tasks. Facing a new year does not fill us with the joy of possibility as it...
Placing family violence survivors at the centre
In a brand new podcast called "There’s No Place Like Home", produced by Future Women, survivors are placed at the centre of the story. Ten brave Australians speak candidly about abuse they’ve...
They called her “Lucky”. But she wasn’t.
Over summer, BroadAgenda is republishing some of its most popular articles. This compelling piece was first posted earlier this year. Content notification: This story discusses family violence,...
Can perpetrators of domestic violence be sued?
Over summer, BroadAgenda is republishing some of its most popular articles. This compelling piece was first posted in 2020. The costs of being a victim of domestic violence are huge. Prolonged abuse...