VOICES ABOUT ECONOMIC ABUSE
The Voices about Economic Abuse are de-identified descriptions of people’s lived experience of domestic, family and sexualised violence and other adversities. The insights are focused on but not limited to experiences of financial and economic abuse. They have been assembled by the Insight Exchange team from the transcripts of interviews conducted by Rosie’s Place.
The insights reveal the ways in which the person has resisted and responded to the violence used against them. The descriptions reveal some of the context in which the violence has occurred, how people, services and systems responded and how these responses were helpful, unhelpful or harmful.
Our thanks to every person who contributed insights for the benefit of many.
We acknowledge that despite our best efforts to listen to lived experiences of violence and abuse, we can never fully understand all that a person’s experiences mean to them now or through their life. We understand that lived and living experiences can never be fully represented in language or any other form.
We invite you to open the individual Voices about Economic Abuse from the list below.
Allanah 'He would use my money with the promise of paying it back.'
Amira 'His money was his money, and my money was our money'.
Amrita 'He only married me so he could keep me as a slave. I was tricked into marrying him.'
Anna 'Thirty dollars a fortnight for four kids.'
Belinda 'It was his way or no way.'
Brittany 'I was like the ATM.'
Bronwyn 'He would try and make me get money from my mother as she was on income support as well'.
Deb 'He must have had another bank account I didn't know about.'
Deepa '"You are not my wife. I just keep you to work here."'
Helena 'He would take the keys to the car to leave me without a car.'
Jasmin 'When he'd come around, money would go missing.'
Jessica 'Nothing we'd had together was in my name, so I had nothing.'
Liz 'When you have nowhere to go, what do you do?'
Maryam '"I told you three years ago that you need to leave that man”.’
Renee 'Once I gave up work, my control went.'
Rochelle 'I was a very independent person before I met this guy.'
Tamara 'Meanwhile, he was pouring money through the poker machines.'
Teresa '"This is my home. I am the boss here."'
The initiative to conduct the interviews was from an informal pro-bono collaboration by Rosie’s Place, WASH House, and the Mt Druitt Family Violence Team. The insights were provided by the individuals for the benefit of others. The interviews were conducted by Rosie’s Place and the descriptions were assembled by the Insight Exchange team. Our thanks to Rosie’s Place for conducting these interviews and providing these transcripts to Insight Exchange to ensure the voices of lived experience are able to help inform and strengthen social, service and systemic responses to violence and abuse.
Explore My Economic Safety for more information about economic abuse.