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Run Against Violence
by Run Against Violence
Listen, learn and talk - that's our route to ending family violence in our communities.Each year, starting 30 August, 1000s of runners and walkers from around the globe come together in teams of up to 20 people to participate in the Run Against Violence Virtual Team Challenge. The teams race each other online for 19 days, covering a route of 1300km. This podcast captures the very personal stories of the event participants. These stories inspire us all to be better people and play our role in the prevention of family violence.
Episodes
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Why Protests Aren't Enough
Amanda Tattersall has built a career helping ordinary Australians team up and win, as co-founder of GetUp, founder of the Sydney Alliance, host of the ChangeMakers podcast, and author of the new book Conscious Tribes. She has never worked in domestic and family violence. That's exactly why she...
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The First Year in a New Country
What happens when someone learns, for the first time in their life, that violence at home is a crime? Aurelia Rahman watches that moment happen in her work, and she describes it as the moment a person discovers they have rights. Aurelia is Head of Community Engagement and Relations at the…
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Prevention, Powered by Volunteers
Australia's answer to domestic and family violence has mostly been rescue, pulling people out after the damage is done. Vital work, but it doesn't stop the water rising. This episode is about working upstream. Lou Hayes is the founder of CQ Healthy Families, a volunteer-run charity in Central...
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Where Violence Takes Root
Why does a country that overwhelmingly condemns family violence keep producing it? The answer reaches well beyond individual choices, into our courts, our phones, and how far we've drifted from the people around us. Kirrily is joined by Nick Tebbey, National Executive Officer of Relationships...
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What Children Need Adults to Know
When almost everything designed to help children affected by domestic and family violence is built by adults, for adults, what does support look like through a child's eyes? Ruby Allen knows, because she lived it. At 19, she's the founder of Kids of Purple, a youth-led initiative she started as a...
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The Scale We Don't Talk About
How many Australian kids are growing up around domestic and family violence? The honest answer is bigger than most of us want to believe, and until we can look at it clearly, we can't change it. To open the season, Kirrily sits down with Professor Tim Moore, Deputy Director of the Australian...
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Season 4 Trailer: Changing the story in our communities
Domestic and family violence affects every community in Australia. We know the scale of the problem. We know more about what drives it. And we know prevention is possible. So why haven't we solved it? In Season 4 of the Run Against Violence podcast, founder Kirrily Dear goes beyond the headlines…
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Empathy in Action: Tools for Transformation
Patty Kikos interviews Brenton Pobjie, whose life has been shaped by service and resilience. His grandmother found refuge with the Salvation Army when fleeing domestic violence with her 6 children, and his father became a minister, instilling in Brenton the importance of helping others. After his...
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From Trauma to Triumph: Overcoming Abuse and Addiction
Tarsha Jones is a proud Gomeroi woman who only learned of her Aboriginal heritage when she was a teenager. She opens up to Patty Kikos about how family violence impacted her life when her brother was hit by a drunk driver that caused him to have frontal lobe damage, and was ultimately drug…
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Desistence: How It's Transforming Attitudes Towards Family Violence
The fabulous Dr Hayley Boxall shines a light on family and partner violence by teaching us about "desistance", and practical ways that we can encourage people to stop choosing to use violence. In this refreshingly down to earth interview with Patty Kikos, Hayley talks about the importance of...
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Brenda Lin: Healing Trauma & Creating Safety For Other Survivors
15 years have passed since the tragic event when Brenda Lin’s parents, brothers and aunt were murdered. She is now a criminologist who is completing her PhD, and is one of the co-founders of the Survivor Hub, an organisation that supports, informs & empowers people impacted by sexual assault....
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Uncomfortable Conversations With Kids: 'The Tuned' In Approach
Dr Tim Moore is an Associate Professor and the Deputy Director at the Institute of Child Protection Studies. He shares his love of storytelling with Patty Kikos, along with comical cautionary tales of 'what not to do' from the lessons he learned as a youth worker. Tim's passion about empowering...
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From Financial Fallout, To Freedom
Tarryn Cherniayeff shares her extraordinary story of empowerment with Patty Kikos. From relinquishing control and access to her own money to uncovering her ex’s gambling addiction and ice pipe. None of that was as shocking as the money he’d stolen or the amount of loans he’d taken out in her…
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The End. And It’s Only The Beginning
The party is over. Now that the Run Against Violence Virtual Team Challenge has finished for another year, we look back and reflect on the 2022 challenge and remember why it’s important to continue shining a light on domestic and family violence in our communities. In this episode: meet Colleen...
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Where Are They Now?
The first Run Against Violence Virtual Team Challenge was held in 2017. 5 years on, we speak with 3 of our original Team Captains, Margie, Ben and Belinda about why they are still passionately involved with the Run Against Violence and how conversations in their community have changed over that...
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Amplify, Amplify, Amplify!
The Katherine Women’s Legal Service (KWILS) is a not-for-profit community legal centre based in Katherine in the Northern Territory that provides free legal services in the Katherine region. In fact, they cover an area the size of Victoria & Tasmania combined! Siobhan Mackay is the CEO of KWILS…
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Love Bites
Run Against Violence partners with the National Association for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (NAPCAN) to help ensure that every teenager in Australia has the opportunity to learn about what healthy relationships look like for them. Over the last 2 years, the RAV has donated $200,000 to...
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Behind the Scenes
The co-founders of Run Against Violence, Kirrily Dear and Brad Smithers, return today to lift the lid and take you behind the scenes of the Run Against Violence. Together they share the financial report for the 2020 - 2021 Financial Year. In this episode: hear Kirrily outline the history of the...
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Leading From The Front
How do we change our way of life, one conversation at a time? Today we’re joined by two women - Kathy Kelly and Jane Caro - who have, in their own ways, played a pivotal role in changing the culture in our community in different ways. Kathy Kelly is mum to Thomas and Stuart Kelly and in 2012...
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On Your Marks, Get Set, Go!
Pat Farmer is a multiple world record holder for endurance running. He has run the length of India and Vietnam, through the Middle East, across Australia, around Australia and across America a couple of times. And, wait for it, from the North Pole to the South Pole. In this episode, he helps us...
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Today’s Conversations, Tomorrow’s Way of Life
The theme of this year’s RAV Virtual Challenge is today’s conversation is tomorrow’s way of life. But how do the conversations we have today shape our community and our lives? We explore this question in this episode. You’ll hear from: Dani who, 12 months ago, shared her story of being a survivor...
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Coercive Control: Hannah’s Legacy
Sue and Lloyd Clarke became passionate and vocal advocates for the criminalisation of coercive control after their daughter Hannah and Hannah’s 3 children Aaliyah, Laianah and Trey were murdered by Hannah’s estranged husband in February 2020 in a case that shocked and galvanised the nation.…
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The Power of Conversations
Do conversations have the power to create real change to our way of life? Are they the key to ending domestic and family violence within our community? In this special episode, Jen Brown, the host of the 2022 RAV podcast shares her thoughts and reflects on what she’s learnt from the Run Against...
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Community Change Starts Here
How do we create real change in our community around family and domestic violence? That’s what we explore in this episode of the Run Against Violence where you’ll meet the dynamic duo of Robyn Harmon and David Harmon. Robyn is a school teacher, Assistant Principal and facilitator of the Love…
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Your Virtual Challenge Survival Guide
The 2022 Run Against Violence Virtual Challenge is fast approaching. So in this episode, we explore how to not only survive but thrive during the challenge with our guests; run coach Lyndal Maloney from Serotonin Running, busy mum and business owner Tara Edwards and the Silver category age record...
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Running as Therapy: Sandy’s Story
In April 2022, Sandy Suckling set out to run 1,100km from Broken Hill to Melbourne to raise funds for and awareness of the Run Against Violence. In this episode, Sandy shares her experience of escaping from family violence, what she’s learnt about the power of conversation and why she describes...
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Rallying the Troops
So registrations for the 2022 Run Against Violence Virtual Challenge are open and pouring in. Teams are being registered. People are looking for teams and teams are looking for people. So let’s chat to 3 people about how they rally the troops. In this episode, you’ll meet Sammy Bruderer, Mark…
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It's Time to Get Talking
Welcome to the first episode of the Run Against Violence for 2022. In this episode, you’ll hear from Run Against Violence co-founders Kirrily Dear and Brad Smithers. In 2014, Kirrily set out to run 860km over 12 days through regional New South Wales. Kirrily and Brad share how that run changed…
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Putting The Bins Out
The party that was the 2021 Run Against Violence Virtual Team Challenge is over. Now the crowds have left, the Aussie Runner Podcast team pulls up a chair with RAV co-founders Kirrily Dear & Brad Smithers, and chat about all that happened during this year’s event. During the 19 days of the event,...
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Part 2: Indigenous Family Violence
Welcome to the finish line episode for the 2021 Run Against Violence Virtual Team Challenge. There are some very strong stereotypes and myths that are informing people’s opinions on family violence in indigenous communities. RAV co-founder Kirrily Dear and Indigenous community worker, mediator…
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Part 1: Indigenous Family Violence
Fifty percent of children in out-of-home care in Australia are Aboriginal. Aboriginal women are 35 times more likely to experience intimate partner violence than non-Aboriginal women. Ask a non-Aboriginal Australian why family violence rates are so high in Indigenous communities, and you’ll hear...
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Running Down Under
In 2014, Travis Ireland decided he wanted to run a marathon. Giving himself a 12-month preparation, Travis went in search of a training program that would keep him motivated and on track for the whole year. When he couldn’t find a solution, Travis developed his own and invited 50 friends to join...
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Gaslighting
The dots only ever connect looking backward. It was a long period after leaving her abusive ex-husband and seeking counselling that Anna was finally able to confidently name what she had lived through. Gaslighting is a subtle and insidious form of emotional abuse that can leave the victim…
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Resilience
Matt is a lawyer practicing in the field of child protection and adoption law. In this episode, Matt gives us the behind-the-scenes view of the extreme highs and lows of his chosen path. We learn about the processes within our court system that are designed to protect children and Matt shares the...
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Labels Are For Jars
Margie Lewis has dedicated her professional and personal life to helping others within her community. In this interview, Margie helps us all be that bit braver and explores the realities of life for children who live within family violence. Children exposed to violence will often exhibit...
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Crazy Large Heart
Kylie Brown is one of the instigators of Run Against Violence in Port Macquarie, NSW. Kylie confesses that it’s not her ‘love’ for running that brings her back to the RAV Challenge each year, it’s the power of the conversation that unfolds. Shortly after marrying at 25 years old, Kylie and her...
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Dani's Story
In 2017, Dani was interstate visiting a friend when she received a phone call from the police. Six detectives had arrived at her house that morning and arrested her controlling, abusive ex-husband. In this episode, Dani publicly shares her story for the first time. She details her life before…
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Starting The Conversation
Belinda Seaman spied a Facebook advertisement for the inaugural 2017 Run Against Violence Virtual Team Challenge, bounced the idea around her running group and days later had two teams of 10 ready to participate. “We put some articles in the local paper and contacted the radio station to let…
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Hidden in Plain Sight
Run Against Violence co-founders, Brad Smithers and Kirrily Dear woke up at around 4:30 am on a stinking-hot November morning in the town of Manila, NSW. Their simple plan for the day was to run an ‘easy marathon’ into Tamworth and attend the White Ribbon Cup football match. But those simple…
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Listen, learn and talk - that's our route to ending family violence in our communities.Each year, starting 30 August, 1000s of runners and walkers from around the globe come together in teams of up to 20 people to participate in the Run Against Violence Virtual Team Challenge. The teams race each other online for 19 days, covering a route of 1300km. This podcast captures the very personal stories of the event participants. These stories inspire us all to be better people and play our role in the prevention of family violence.
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