<b>Squatting, kidnapping and collaboration: Australia’s first women’s shelters were acts of radical grassroots feminism</b>

50 years ago, there wasn’t a single women’s shelter in Australia.Then feminists squatted two terraces in Sydney, opening “Elsie”, Australia’s first domestic and family violence refuge.Commissioned by Elsie co-founder Anne Summers, I’ve recorded oral histories with the women who built and sustained Australia’s refuge movement.Australia’s refuge movement is a story of courageous grassroots feminist activism.

五十年前，澳大利亚尚未设立任何一家女性庇护所。彼时，女权主义者占据悉尼的两处联排住宅，创办了澳大利亚首个针对家庭暴力受害者的庇护所“埃尔西（Elsie）”。受“埃尔西”联合创始人安妮·萨默斯（Anne Summers）委托，我对参与并维系澳大利亚庇护所运动的女性们进行了口述史录制。澳大利亚的庇护所运动，是一段彰显勇气的基层女权行动主义历程。