A flash mob of people in Valentines Day red outfits sang and danced in warm Byron waters on Saturday as part of a global campaign against gendered violence.

The Greens NSW Party Room says it is 'standing up with Hannah Thomas, survivor of police violence, and calling for charges to be laid against any NSW police officer that assaulted any member of the community in the wake of the scenes of police violence in the Sydney CBD on Monday 9 February.'

A 51-year-old woman is to face court in February after allegedly stealing food from a shop in Lismore’s city centre and biting the shop owner when confronted.

Online violence against women human rights defenders, activists and journalists has reached a tipping point, often fueling offline attacks, according to a major new international report.

Local police have issued a public thank you to community members in Mullum, who they say helped lead officers to the arrest of an allegedly violent man in the town centre last week.

Greens MP and spokesperson for justice Sue Higginson says new video has revealed the real risk, harm and impunity that occurs from neo-Nazi and Nationalist rallies with two brothers, Shamikh and Majed Dadra, who were assaulted on a Sydney train by participants of the so-called ‘March for Australia’ rally that occurred in Sydney last Sunday.

NSW MLC Sue Higginson says the continued actions by Premier Chris Minns to clamp down on political expression and peaceful protest are empowering state violence against the community of NSW, with the recent assault and arrests by police at a peaceful community protest revealing the impact of Minns’ rhetoric and law-making in empowering state violence by police against the community.

As we steadily count the climbing numbers of women who die almost weekly at the hands of someone within their own home, taking a closer look at how and why it happens provides the insight we need to make it stop.

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Today the NSW government is launching an advertising campaign to raise public awareness and understanding of coercive control.