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No marks does not mean no harm. Mental ill-health does not mean violence.
An alleged family violence offence before Queensland courts has prompted WHISE to take the opportunity to highlight the evidence base about non-fatal strangulation, mental ill-health and family violence. “To end family violence in our lifetime, it’s really important for people to understand two areas of the evidence base that are commonly misunderstood,” said WHISE Acting…
The work across ten councils continues. WHISE appoints an Acting Chief Executive Officer and opens the search for a permanent appointment.
Zoe Francis will act in the role of Chief Executive Officer at Women’s Health in the South East from 21 September 2026, while the Board conducts an open recruitment process for a permanent appointment. Applications for the permanent role close at midnight on Sunday 27 September 2026. “Zoe Francis knows this region and she knows…
Being believed is where good care starts. Victoria has written that down, and the next step is building it in.
The Victorian Women’s Pain Standard, published on 11 September 2026, says that women, girls and gender diverse people should be taken seriously and believed when they talk about pain. Women’s Health in the South East is asking one thing of what comes next: name how the Standard will be measured, and build that answer in partnership with the services already doing…
Women in the south east said their appointments were too short. A federal review has now put a number on why.
A federal review has found Medicare’s fee structure disadvantages women patients and women general practitioners, because both are more likely to use and to provide longer consultations. Women in Victoria’s Southern Metropolitan Region told a state inquiry the same thing two years ago. Women’s Health in the South East wants the final report to recommend that the rebate…
Medicare’s time problem is a women’s health problem, and two inquiries are now holding different parts of it
What has happened On 3 September 2026 the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) Review Advisory Committee released the draft report of its Time-Tiered Working Group. The report finds that the fee structure pays a lower rate per minute for longer consultations, and that this disproportionately affects women general practitioners and women patients. Consultation closes on 15 October 2026 and the…
Berwick’s newest mural began as a Year 10 assignment. The model behind it is now open to every council.
A mural honouring Lady Maie Casey is unveiled in Berwick on Wednesday 9 September 2026, proposed by Year 10 students who audited who is remembered in their own suburbs and found the women missing. The Project Respect toolkit launches with it, setting out how any council and school can do the same. “Twenty-eight Year 10…
Misogyny is not a mystery. It is a mechanism, and a mechanism can be redesigned.
It is unfortunate that, with the evidence available and the expertise available, myths and misinformation about what prevents violence against women are still being distributed. Two Australian studies close the question. Women’s Health in the South East is asking that algorithmic recommendation be something a young person opts into rather than the setting they are…
Ending violence in a generation means funding the work that takes a generation
Australia is at the halfway mark of a ten-year national plan that set out to end gender-based violence in one generation. Primary prevention is the only part of that plan that works on a generational timeframe, and it is the part the Second Action Plan has not yet named. Women’s Health in the South East…
The Second Action Plan can fund what already works
Ten years of coordinated prevention practice across Melbourne’s south east has shown what stops violence before it starts. The Second Action Plan under the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022 to 2032, now being finalised, is the opportunity to put that practice to work nationally. Women’s Health in the South East…