Within one week of April in 2024, the city of Sydney was rocked by two separate violent stabbing attacks. In one case, after the stabbing of two Coptic clerics by a young Muslim man, politicians and the media were quick to establish that this was a terrorist attack. In the other case, where five women and one man were killed in a shopping centre by a man who targeted women, the blame was not levelled at ideological extremism but rather ‘psychological problems’ and was not considered a terrorist incident. In this paper, the authors examine the relative framing of these two events by politicians and the media, and highlight how framing violence against women in episodic, individualistic, and situational ways, as opposed to an expression of a thematic, public, and pervasive issue, diminishes the capacity to respond effectively to misogynistic violence.