Arts with law: a complementary and powerful combination

A national crisis of gendered violence taints Australia, with government statistics revealing one in five women have experienced sexual violence while over a quarter have experienced family or partner violence. Outrageously, the systems that are set up to ideally protect victim-survivors continue to address the issue inadequately and even harmfully.

‘These are tools that we don’t think of as lawyers, but are really useful as ways to persuade and pressure decision-makers… They often would not listen to us if you were just using the law, as is traditionally conceived,’ Razi continues.