Zanette Perinoni 

Founder

Sister Power Australia

Zanette Perinoni is the founder of Sister Power Australia, a social enterprise born from a lifetime of lived experience, advocacy, and unwavering commitment to women who have been silenced, controlled, or made invisible.

With degrees in Business (Marketing), Graphic Design, and a Master’s in Communication and Public Relations, Zanette spent years teaching advertising, communications, and public relations at university level. But her most important education did not come from classrooms. It came from surviving a childhood marked by emotional abuse, a marriage defined by control, and a family system where power was used to dominate rather than protect.

These experiences shaped a deep understanding of how coercion, fear, and psychological manipulation strip people of their voice, their confidence, and their sense of self. They also shaped Zanette’s life-long commitment to ensuring that other women do not have to walk that road alone.

For over a decade, Zanette has worked in advocacy and humanitarian support, particularly with refugees and displaced women, helping individuals rebuild their lives, regain independence, and navigate complex systems that often fail the most vulnerable. She is also a director of WomenKind Australia and has been instrumental in developing programs focused on awareness, personal safety, boundaries, and rebuilding self-agency.

At the heart of Zanette’s work is her ongoing fight to protect her profoundly disabled sister, whose life has exposed deep systemic gaps in guardianship, care, and legal protection for vulnerable people. This experience has given Zanette an unflinching understanding of how easily people can become invisible inside the very systems meant to protect them.

Sister Power Australia exists because Zanette believes empowerment is not a slogan – it is a practical, step-by-step process of helping women rebuild confidence, skills, safety, independence, and community. The organisation is founded on one simple principle: no woman should have to survive alone, and no woman should be made to feel that what has happened to her is her fault.

Zanette’s work is guided by calm, clarity, and principle rather than anger. She believes real change comes not from reaction, but from steady, intelligent action – and from building structures that make it possible for women to stand strong in their own lives again.