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 […]

At Bonnie’s we are always thinking about ways to keep women safe and get them the help they need. We want to be accessible to all women, so we’ve partnered with the Liverpool Women’s Health Centre (LWHC) to create our new Safety Hub. It’s a drop-in centre inside the LWHC, where any woman can safely […]

Imagine not having a warm bed to sleep in this winter… …or your family not having a roof over their heads. It can be easy to forget that homelessness could affect any one of us. That’s why Bonnie’s took part in Nite Under The Stars, a campaign to raise awareness of homelessness among residents, businesses […]

How do you make people look at something – say, domestic violence – that they might usually try to avoid? For Tauranga Women’s Refuge, the answer is Grim Tales, a coffee table book, made in collaboration with The Incubator. Each of the 13 stories in the book is a true tale of surviving domestic violence, rewritten […]

Kylie Watson, The Home Handywoman runs DIY workshop days for our women at Bonnie’s. She’s showing them how to do the fixing for themselves. We usually start our workshop days the morning, going for a wander around Bonnie house to find the electricity meter, the mains power, the water and the gas. We go through how […]

You might remember a post on the blog from a couple of weeks ago about Irish women on the walls. Here’s another group of women using art to reclaim space, this time in Egypt and the Middle East.   “There’s no doubt that the whole project leads to the same thing. The main target is […]

Chris Downey, singer in Burning Season (a Sydney metalcore band), tells us about how they came to write a song against domestic violence and donate the proceeds to Bonnie’s. I originally wrote the song maybe a year ago. I wrote it because it’s something that’s affected my girlfriend quite badly, so that kind of spurred […]

Street harassment is a real problem for women, making them feel unsafe in public places. For these young Mexican women, the answer is…confetti and microphones! In Mexico City, street harassment is rampant and the usual response is to ignore it. Las Hijas de Violencia – a five woman punk group/ performance art collective – have […]