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Articles on Domestic violence
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Women in abusive relationships are much more likely to be unemployed and to earn less money than women with non-abusive partners.
Emergency alerts system: a lifesaving service or a threat to privacy?
Ours is the first national survey of the population aged 16 years and older about their experiences of child maltreatment.
The new Personal Safety Survey shows eight million Australians have experienced some form of violence since the age of 15, but women are far more likely to be victims than men.
A historian highlights the role of Frances Willard, who helped found the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, one of the major social movements of the 19th and 20th centuries.
When women have opportunities, a country’s economic productivity and development is enhanced.
There are many different reasons why men and women commit these acts, but the small number of cases makes it difficult to track.
The media needs to take greater care when covering these cases, as the reasons behind such violence are incredibly complex.
Some reporting on Mparntwe/Alice Springs has perpetuated racial stereotypes, causing emotional harm for First Nations people. This article debunks the myths we keep seeing in the media.
The State of Knowledge Report on Violence Perpetration, released today, reviews the current data and research on who perpetrates domestic, family, and sexual violence.
Our research found missed opportunities are evident in child protection, health settings, mental health settings, drug and alcohol interventions, and in corrections.
The threat of fire and burning as a tool of family violence isn’t routinely assessed and addressed in Australia.
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that shelters helping survivors of domestic violence are essential. Retention and recruitment issues in the gender-based violence sector require systemic solutions.
Interventions against intimate partner violence may work better if they target the mechanisms that make empathic women more vulnerable.
If passed in its current form, the European Union’s new directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence will be world-leading.
Qatari law underpins a patriarchal and misogynistic system. The discrimination women, including female football fans, face contravenes international human rights.
Health and service workers are not asking women about a potential traumatic brain injury, there’s a lack of referral options, and often no diagnosis.
Russell Marks’ Black Lives, White Law is not about solutions; it’s about identifying the problems with Australia’s criminal legal system, and the injustice it does to First Nations people.
What does it say to victims of intimate partner violence when a convicted wife beater and murderer is invited to a public event by the ruling government?
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Director, Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre; Professor of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Monash University
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