How did we celebrate this Christmas at Bonnie’s? Christmas Day in a refuge can be very bit different to what our women and their children are used to. Look at it in this way: suddenly you are not celebrating with your extended family. Instead you are with families that you met just a couple of […]

When Liverpool City Council and the Bulldogs NRL put out an advertisement to run a workshop for young people, we jumped at the chance.  The workshop would give the young people an hour sporting activity with the Bulldogs and then an our educational program with a service like ours. Of course, we wanted to use […]

Wrapping up 2016, we thought we’d share with you a serious but heartwarming video about  ‘Kids’ Honest Opinions on Being a Boy or Girl Around the World.” Check out the video below…

Back when we finished our new offices and interview rooms, we planned to frost the glass walls. But then we thought: Why not do something creative? Here was an opportunity to show Aboriginal woman and children that they are welcome here, and to add beauty to function. We wanted something that would reflect our space – […]

Have you ever heard a song and thought, “This is my song!” A song that makes you feel all tingly inside and inspire you to take action, a song that brings out the passion in you or just simply make you feel a bit better inside. Well? We might have the playlist to get you […]

While working with my clients at Bonnie’s, I realize the importance of building good relationships especially for migrant woman. When these women find they are victims of domestic violence, they don’t have too many options to look at for help. They don’t have friends or family or jobs. They don’t have the relationships that others […]

Bonnie’s recently had the pleasure of revealing our new ‘Kids Space’ at one of the refuges. The existing children’s space was run down and lacked the ‘warmth’ that is at the centre of all we’re trying to do here at Bonnie’s. We wanted a welcoming and appealing homely space for the mothers and children to […]

Every year Bonnie’s, in partnership with Liverpool Women’s Resource Centre and Liverpool Women’s Health Centre, sponsor an award in the Annual MIL-PRA AECG Art Exhibition All submissions for this exhibition are from artists of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent living in NSW or ACT. This year, our award was renamed the Kate Nickolas Liverpool […]

Debbie has been running the Premier Brands Outlet in Minchinbury for three and a half years. She recently gave a wonderful donation of brand new clothes to Bonnie’s. I’ve worked in retail for 23 years, at all the different levels. I started managing Premier Brands Outlet in the Western suburbs about three and a half […]

One woman recently stood up to her landlord and her win in court is likely to set a legal ruling that tenants have the right to expect their home is maintained in good repair, even when it is originally rented out in poor condition. Vicki Shields is a disability pensioner. Her rental had holes in […]

Pacts Project is a wonderful resource educating health care students and professionals about how to recognise and respond to family violence. Dr Jan Coles was working as a GP when she got the idea. She had a patient, a young woman who couldn’t look at her eight-week-old baby. Her new son had smiled at her […]

Last week was Homelessness Week. Here are five things that stood out and reminded us that there’s always something you can do to help – no matter the time of year. Going to Homelessness Week events: There were a bunch of these all over the country with a huge range of activities. You might have […]