Landmark financial abuse inquiry backs financial safety by design
Social entrepreneur Catherine Fitzpatrick has welcomed today’s release of the financial abuse inquiry report Financial abuse: An insidious form of domestic violence. The report from the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services inquiry into the financial services regulatory framework and financial abuse makes 61 recommendations. “This report exposes the pervasive harm caused by […]
Flequity co-convenes national business roundtable on gender-based violence prevention
The Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commissioner, Micaela Cronin, and social entrepreneur Catherine Fitzpatrick are co-convening a national business roundtable, bringing together over 60 senior corporate leaders to discuss the role of businesses and workplaces to prevent and reduce violence against women and children. Senior representatives from Woolworths Group, Telstra, Optus, Origin, AGL, Australian Chamber […]
21 Australian businesses unite against financial abuse
In a world-first, 21 Australian businesses across telecommunications, banking, insurance, education and technology are mobilising against perpetrators of domestic and family violence today. They have joined respect and protect, a national initiative designed by social enterprise Flequity Ventures to disrupt the rise of financial abuse in Australia. Australia’s corporate first movers include Optus, Suncorp, IAG, […]
Two new Designed to Disrupt reports commissioned
Catherine Fitzpatrick has been commissioned to write two new Designed to DisruptTM reports as part of the Essential Services Commission‘s national safety by design partnership. “Men who choose violence have found many ways to misuse products and services across a range of industries as a way to control women through their access to money and […]