{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Feminist Acts","title":"#7 - Systems abuse: How to end the violence we don't name.","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1156,"description":"When a relationship ends, coercive control doesn't end with it. \nSometimes the perpetrator finds a new weapon. Often it's the legal system itself. \nThey flood their ex-partner with paperwork, they book up every available lawyer in a rural town so there's no one left to represent the other side. They drag everything back to court. \nIt's called systems abuse, and Australian courts don't currently recognise it as a form of family violence.\nSo how do we name something that hides behind legitimate legal processes? \nA recent law graduate rewrote the law to recognise systems abuse as family violence in its own right, with penalties attached.\nIn this episode, you'll learn:\nWhat \"systems abuse\" is, and how perpetrators weaponise legal process to keep controlling ex-partners after separation\nHow someone can draft some of the most striking feminist legislation in this series, despite not identifying as a \"feminist\"\nWhat changes when we teach law students to draft legislation, not just study it\nGuests:\nClarrissa Carson, Law Graduate at AjG Family Law\nHost:\nBecky Batagol, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Monash University\n\nTake action today:\nThe book is free! The provisions are drafted. Take them to your parliament. Adapt them for another jurisdiction. Or start your own feminist legislation project.\nDownload the full book for free (open access):\nhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003372462/feminist-legislation-project-becky-batagol-heli-askola-jamie-walvisch-kate-seear\n\nThe Feminist Legislation Project: Rewriting Laws for Gender-Based Justice \nEdited By Becky Batagol, Kate Seear, Heli Askola, Jamie Walvisch\nPublished by Routledge\nCopyright 2025\nYou can find out a little more about legal and other forms of systems abuse in the National Domestic and Family Violence Benchbook (2025). \nThis benchbook is a resource for the education and training of judicial officers (judges) so as to promote best practice and improve consistency in judicial decision-making...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/9qpaPxX9PgYAW5RSDNWabBKNADT3ptoX-L5GcGDtzBg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yOWQ3/MzEzZTg5Yjg2ZGQ4/ZDU0YzIzZTdjMzRh/NDdlNC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}