Live Live Revolution & Protective Collective (PC) is a lived experience, volunteer-run organisation working to end violence, educate and provide advocacy around, coercive control, violence, the harms that family law systems cause especially to mothers, caregivers and children, including in Australia and internationally.

We provide education and training on domestic violence, sexual violence and coercive control, and we support law reform and policy change, including changes to the Family Law Act, through research, submissions to inquiries and public education.

PC offers support groups and one-on-one support for mothers and caregivers, especially those who have lost custody of their children or been harmed through family law proceedings after reporting violence.

We run a lived experience panel so that mothers' voices are heard in inquiries and reports, and we build international partnerships with researchers, advocates and organisations working on the same issues. Gendered violence is an epidemic in Australia, and PC works within the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children. Membership is free. [PC is working towards registration as a charity.]

Founder, Lisa McDonald

Lisa McDonald Arts Psych Grad Dip is the Founder of Live Live Revolution and Protective Collective. She has lived experience in all areas, as well as over two decades of activism, advocacy, running support groups, violence prevention and public awareness and education, and Family Law reform, to name a few things. Lisa has assisted in law reform, policy change, protection of case notes, rallies protesting sexual violence, endless activism and advocacy and running groups, including social justice as an art form and one on one support. Lisa is on the frontline of support and raising awareness and partners with people in Australian and Internationally to do this. Regularly updating her social media, @kaykohsun and @protective collective as well as via her Protective Collective Substack.

On these pages you can find Resources, links to support and education, and an invitation to become a free member of the collective to get the latest news on what is happening in the space of violence prevention and have opportunities for support and to raise your voice.