National Cabinet unveiled a $4.7 billion partnership, starting July 1 2025, to address domestic violence. It’s funding that’s sorely needed and enthusiastically welcomed, but needed immediately.
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The problem of tech-facilitated abuse will remain if the police and courts don’t start taking it seriously.
Ghana’s history with implementing laws threatens the success of the affirmative action law.
First Nations women are more likely than non-Indigenous women to experience traumatic brain injury from domestic violence. But they don’t always access health care.
Around the world, violence against girls and women is on the rise. Researcher Stephanie Lamy has investigated misogynistic online subcultures to find out why.
All of us have lost loved ones. Each of us know First Nations women and children who have been murdered and disappeared. This inquiry was welcome – but its recommendations fall far short of justice.
Marketed as a romance novel, between its pink, floral covers, It Ends with Us is a novel about domestic violence. The film attempts to rectify the issues of its deceptive categorisation.
Programs to help men to stop using violence are crucial, but are men meaningfully engaging with them? Our new study found opportunities to increase engagement, and in doing so, better protect women.
The Australian government hopes an ad campaign will raise awareness to stop elder abuse. But it may do more harm than good.
Publishing the faces and names of people accused of violence isn’t the best way of getting them to change their behaviour.
By exploiting their victim’s disability, perpetrators increase their power and coercive control, thereby intensifying the abuse.
Women who have moved to Australia, particularly from traumatic settings, are particularly at risk of gendered violence. Here’s what our research found helps them to speak up.
Australian laws fall well short of protecting women from an abusive partner’s debts by adopting a US law removing their liability.
Some countries closer to achieving gender equality still have high rates of domestic violence, but look a bit closer and you’ll see the full story.
New research shows police specialising in family violence are concerned current approaches leave victim-survivors unprotected.
Confiscating firearms from alleged abusers might seem like a good idea, but it’s unlikely to make much of a difference.
After historic win, President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum will face pressure to address her country’s gender violence.
Evidence suggests that some individuals who hurt animals likewise act violently toward women and girls. Exploring that overlap can help prevent gender-based violence and animal abuse.
While federal politics often seems top down on most issues fighting social media’s grip on children, the pressure now comes from the bottom up.
First Nations women are 32 times more likely to be hospitalised as a result of domestic violence than non-Indigenous women. We need to put Indigenous women at the centre of the discussion.
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Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Monash University
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Professor, Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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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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Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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ARC Future Fellow and Professor of Criminology, Monash University
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Director Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, CI ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW), School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies (SOPHIS), School of Social Sciences (SOSS), Faculty of Arts, Monash University
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Principal Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Professor of Social Work, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Professor Monash University, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney
