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While it’s important to protect vulnerable children from exposure to further harm, it’s also important to give them a voice to speak about their own trauma from domestic violence.
Indigenous children are admitted to out-of-home care at 11 times the rate for non-Indigenous children. The lack of safe housing for mothers fleeing family violence is a key factor.
It seems the driving force behind this new inquiry is Pauline Hanson’s unsupported claim women often make up allegations of domestic violence in family courts.
As the government starts its work on workplace change, it gave Pauline Hanson a win, for past and future favours, making her deputy chair of a joint parliamentary committee into the family law system.
New research has found that young women, Indigenous Australians and people with disabilities are the most frequent victims of ‘revenge porn.’
Tying Centrelink payments to a partner can trap women in violent relationships.
History shows that domestic violence has been deeply entrenched in the culture of Australia from its early days. Progress is only made by understanding this history – and talking about it.
Mexico is the second most dangerous country for women in Latin America. Yet the new government is slashing funding for programs meant to protect and empower women.
This week, Victoria has joined several other states and committed to introducing a non-fatal strangulation offence. This move will change the way domestic abusers are prosecuted.
A new book scrutinises the social and psychological causes of domestic abuse, its terrifying consequences, particularly the impact on children, and the failure of our legal and social institutions to adequately respond.
The largest group of homeless women is between the ages of 25 and 34, and family violence is most often the cause. Their stories testify to the dangers and stresses of not having a place to call home.
Albanese last week had Setka suspended from the party and will move for his expulsion when its national executive meets on July 5.
The SA government is trialling a new program that will provide accommodation and support services to the perpetrators of domestic violence – enabling women and children to remain in the family home.
Western Australia is leading a legal shift across Australia that seeks to remove the legal and financial barriers that prevent women from leaving an abusive household.
Examining 302 police reports in Detroit, a new study shows that animal cruelty is tightly connected to human relationships.
New laws in the UK have led to convictions for a range of deplorable behaviours used to control partners in relationships. It’s time Australia reconsidered introducing such legislation here.
Women experiencing family and domestic violence within faith communities can face attitudes and practices that encourage them to stay in relationships with their abusers.
Some of the Coalition government’s initiatives on women and Indigenous issues have been more successful than others. Labor is promising much more.
What’s often missing from domestic violence responses are investments and strategies to stop men perpetrating violence in the first place.
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Professor of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Monash University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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Professor of Social Work; Leneen Forde Chair in Child & Family Research, Griffith University
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Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Family & Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, University of Liverpool
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Managing Director, Her Story Consulting & Postdoctoral fellow, Australian National University
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ARC Future Fellow and Professor of Criminology, Monash University
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Deputy Dean, School of Law, Deakin University
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Professor of Social Work, Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Honorary Associate Professor, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Sociology, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Professor Monash University, Monash University
