N OVEMBER 2025
State Library Windows on Collections Operation VeteranAssist
38 pages 294 views For 165 years State Library Victoria has collected books, maps, ephemera, objects and artworks on almost every subject you can think of, with a special focus on Victoria. The State Collection includes almost 5.5 million items which provide a vital window into the past and record of contemporary life. Window on Collections is our new series of displays - from full galleries to surprising pop-ups - that give you a glimpse of what we're collecting and why. Our first Window on Collections is the Rural and Regional Photography Commission, a poignant series of
photographs that document the year that was 2020 in regional Victoria. Captured through a local lens, these images share moments of regional life and its challenges in this extraordinary time. Discover more in our online gallery or see the series on display in the Victoria Gallery until January 2022. We need your support to expand this project in 2021 and capture more stories from across the state. Help us Focus on country Victoria while these experiences are still vivid. What are the unique issues facing rural and regional Victorians? What do our communities hope for and how will recent events shape the future? The events of 2020 have had a tremendous impact on rural and regional Victorians, with years of drought culminating in a devastating bushfire season, followed by the arrival of the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Family Violence Perpetrated Whilst Protected By Police FVIO
37 pages 642 views Maggie Marriott, Managing Director and founder of Smart Buoy Co., a company I own. I established the company in 2000 in The Grampians as Buoyage Systems Australia Pty Ltd. I returned to live and work in the Gippsland Lakes in 2015 and continued developing the company. Unbeknownst to me, my estranged husband kept sabotaging my life— something I have now discovered he has done since I was eight. I am on Facebook under the pseudonym NormaOlive Brown and the pen name Dorothea Mason. I work hard to maintain a very public online presence to keep myself and my friends safe in the real world. I protected myself from "non-physical family violence" until I made the mistake of reporting a workplace bullying and harassment incident to Victoria Police. Police charged and issued a Family Violence notice to the wrong man, failing to identify the real perpetrator. After I became a Protected Person, there was a
deluge of police, lawyer and magistrate actions that validated and emboldened the perpetrators to destroy my world and take control of all my assets. I have been living and working from my 4WD since June 2019, while the perpetrators profit from my assets whilst endeavouring to have me jailed. My online infrastructure has been almost obliterated whilst the perpetrators enjoy the support of Victoria Police. In documenting my circumstances, I discovered administrative failings, a failure to follow procedures, non- compliance with various Acts by Victoria Police, and errors made by magistrates and registrars in the Magistrates' Court of Victoria, which are glaringly obvious. Police still use Bic Biros on poorly designed and incomprehensible forms and documents. The constables are the frontline, yet they seem to be illiterate, and their writing comprehension skills are nonexistent. I need an investigative journalist and a podcast to continue my work. Last week, my perpetrators succeeded in having another of my online accounts suspended. One hundred and forty publications about me, the things that interest me, and the evidence of their crimes are no longer accessible. At least I had catalogued them and had republished the catalogue along with nine others on Flipbooks.
Maggie Marriott
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