For Her, With Her is a podcast by Women’s Legal Service QLD, created to inform, support, and empower women navigating domestic and family violence, family law, and complex legal systems. Each episode features real conversations with legal experts, advocates, and women with lived experience—breaking down the law into clear, practical guidance. Whether you’re seeking support, working in the sector, or want to better understand the issues affecting women across Queensland, this series offers thoughtful, trauma-informed insight grounded in decades of frontline experience.
Note: This podcast provides general information only and does not constitute legal advice. If you need personalised legal support, contact Women’s Legal Service Queensland or a qualified professional. Thank you to the Pekol Family for making the podcast possible.
In this episode of For Her, With Her, we explore the growing threat of technology-facilitated abuse with Dr Freya McLachlan, criminologist and research fellow at Griffith University. From stalking via smartphones to financial and image-based abuse, Dr McLachlan explains how technology is increasingly weaponised by perpetrators, and what victim-survivors, bystanders, and the tech industry can do to respond. This is an important conversation about safety in an ever-connected world and why recognising tech abuse as serious, dangerous and pervasive is key to preventing harm.
In this episode of For Her, With Her, we’re joined by Inspector Mel Dwyer from the Queensland Police Service to unpack how the legal system responds to domestic and family violence. Inspector Dwyer shares how policing has evolved, what the new coercive control offence means, and why getting the right support, from both police and the community, is so important. It’s a conversation about listening, learning and making sure every woman feels seen, heard and protected.
In our first ever episode of For Her, With Her, Vanessa Fowler OAM, Chair of the Allison Baden-Clay Foundation, joins us to discuss how domestic and family violence can present in both visible and hidden ways. Vanessa shares her family’s journey after the loss of her sister Allison, and how recognising early signs of abuse, especially coercive control, can make all the difference. This episode reminds us that domestic violence does not discriminate, and that community education, kindness and bystander action are key to creating safer futures.
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