Womens Legal Service Tasmania

Get ready for a six-episode podcast that may make you uncomfortable but will definitely prepare you to get the best from the legal system we’ve got.

The podcast is a collaboration between Women’s Legal Service Tasmania and Healthy Tasmania providing up-to-date information for women navigating the legal aspects of family violence and separation in a conversational way.

Containing candid conversations with lawyers and people with lived experience and with community who have intervened where they have seen abuse, the series illustrates the barriers facing women and steps them through the process. The podcasts also improves community awareness about what family violence looks like and what you can do.

If you feel helpless when you hear the statistics about intimate partner violence or aren’t confident you’d recognise or know how to support someone experiencing family violence then get ready for Season Two of Rule of Thumb. Our second season is like a practical guide of things to notice, say and do every day that WILL reduce the prevalence of family violence. Over eight episodes you’ll learn about the many different types of abuse, you’ll understand how we become bystanders (often unknowingly), and what we can do to notice and take effective bystander action, ultimately “training family violence” out of our communities. There will be parts of this season that will be uncomfortable to listen to because family violence is an uncomfortable problem that’s been kept hidden for too long.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.