Send us Fan Mail Leaving an abusive relationship is a high-risk period that can stretch for months, sometimes years, and the people around you may have no idea how quickly danger can escalate. We sit down with Karen Anderson, CEO of Escape to Better Foundation, to talk about early intervention in domestic and family violence and why Australia’s support system so often waits for crisis. Karen draws on lived experience and her work supporting victim survivors to explain why “just leave” is uns...
24 May 2026
Surviving Systems Abuse
Send us Fan Mail We speak with family lawyer and Divorce Detox founder Cassandra Calpaxis about how coercive control can continue through separation and be amplified by the family court process. We focus on practical steps that protect victim survivors, strengthen evidence, and reduce the chaos that abusers rely on. • what systems abuse looks like in family court and how it plays out in real time • last-minute disclosure, repeated filings, and baseless allegations as coercive tactics&n...
5 Mar 2026
Domestic Violence and Economic Abuse
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Lady News, we sit down with Robin Ray, CEO of Beryl Women Inc. in Canberra, to unpack economic abuse as a powerful and often hidden tactic of domestic and family violence. Robin is a proud Kamilaroi woman born in the small NSW country town of Collarenebri, where she grew up on the Aboriginal Reserve. Before becoming CEO, she worked within the service as an Aboriginal Support Worker, gaining deep frontline experience supporting women escaping violence and na...
30 Jan 2026
When Truth Isn’t Enough: Rethinking Safety, Power, And Evidence
Send us Fan Mail We speak with Anne Wintermute from Aimee Says AI about how abuse often reveals itself through patterns and how this free tool can help survivors recognise coercive control before it's too late. Together, we unpack the power-and-control wheel and connect it to real-world experiences: rapid emotional escalation, post-separation abuse, and the exhausting administrative burden of seeking justice. In this episode, we explore: • recognising coercive control through patt...
4 Jan 2026
Emotional Abuse, Made Visible
Send us Fan Mail A charming start can hide a calculated pattern. We open our first Lady News episode by naming the tactics that make emotional abuse so hard to see love bombing, DARVO, fast intimacy and we ground them in a brave, lived-experience story from Leesa Scanlan. Her account traces the slow shift from fairy tale to fear, how late-night conflicts and word salad undermine confidence, and why outside voices can be the mirror you need when self-doubt takes over. We walk through the powe...
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