Rosie Batty spoke to The Australia yesterday about “Financial violence - one of the many forms of violence which a woman can experience."

I'm very sorry for your loss Rosie and I wish you the best - but going into debt is not the same as being the victim of a violent attack.

And in the financial abuse stakes - who says it's just women who are the victims?

This from The Australian today.

Rosie Batty warns of ‘financial violence’ against women

In an interview with The Australian yesterday, Ms Batty said ­financial institutions needed to be aware of the fact that women could be victims of “financial violence” as well as physical violence by abusive partners.

She said this could include having to go guarantor on loans they knew little about or being deprived of funds, which forced them into debt.

She said financial institutions needed to be sensitive to issues of female clients who found themselves in financial difficulty as a result of being in an abusive relationship.

“Financial violence is preventative and one of the many forms of violence which a woman can experience,” she said.

“Banks need to be able to frame responses to this complex issue and understand how this can play out and what part they can play.”

Ms Batty will make her first visit to a brokers’ trading room when she rings the bell at Nabtrade’s Sydney office next Wednesday.

The firm, owned by National Australia Bank, will be donating all of the brokerage it makes on April 19 to the Luke Batty Foundation, which Ms Batty set up following the murder of her 11-year-old son in 2014 by his father.

Ms Batty said the decision by Nabtrade to donate a day’s brokerage to the foundation followed a lecture she had given to bank staff several years ago.

She said NAB had shown an early interest in raising awareness of the issue of family violence and having policies to help its staff and customers.

She said she hoped the day would help raise awareness of the problem of family violence, including that it was an issue that was “prevalent as much in white-collar sectors as well as other sectors of the community.”

Nathan Walsh, NAB’s general manager of self-directed wealth, said the bank introduced a domestic violence support policy for its staff in 2013 and followed up last year with a policy aimed at ­assisting customers who may be victims of domestic violence.

This included grants of up to $2500 to help them leave a violent home. 

Last September it was revenge porn that was being put on the same footing as fair dinkum violence.  

I made these observations at the time.

ABC News is looking for people with unflattering nude shots and a story to tell.

Monday, 05 September 2016

I reckon I attended about 100 domestics when I was a copper.

It was a radio call that always made me nervous.

Nerves are the last thing you need driving a panel van fast around city traffic or juggling the Melways directory of tiny Collingwood streets while your mate yells "which way" at every corner.

We tried to get to those calls as quickly as we safely could because experience teaches police that horrible violent things happen at homes when people start going at each other hard enough for the police to get a call.

Mid-afternoon on a sunny weekday the divvy van a policewoman and I were crewing was called to "just a domestic" at an inner city address.

We arrived at an unspeakable scene where a young bloke had smashed his mum's head with a hammer.

No police I worked with treated domestic violence as if it was a joke.

That's why this bloke turns my stomach.

I don't need a lecture from a weirdo man teetering around in high heels as if it's the greatest "look at me" lark of all time.

Fighting fair dinkum violence is something that can do without every fame-seeking two-bob trendoid with a claim to being up with the savvy issues of the day and a Twitter handle to push.