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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Media messages normalise gender violence by teaching teenagers – girls and boys alike – that anger is linked to passion and attractiveness.
Within seconds, an app can turn anyone’s photo into an explicit image. The law is catching up to make this a criminal offence, but we need to do more.
Committing resources to violence prevention and services for victims/survivors is necessary to meet current and future needs.
Our research on school students’ sexist behaviour towards teachers shows some school leaders, colleagues and parents are downplaying harassment and abuse.
The largest South African survey of its kind has found that women in live music are often excluded from decision-making, receive unequal pay and face a range of aggressions.
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.
Publishing the faces and names of people accused of violence isn’t the best way of getting them to change their behaviour.
Mental health support is crucial for incel communities, however, associating incel violence with mental health and neurodivergence risks stigmatizing people with autism.
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.
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.
Backed by an overwhelming majority, Claudia Sheinbaum has a unique opportunity to advance gender equality in Mexico.
Many people agree freedom of speech has its limits and the law has some role to play in prohibiting harmful speech. But what should these laws look like?
As Mexico elects its new president, gang violence continues to sprawl.
New technologies lead to new forms of gender-based violence such as cyberflashing, where survivors receive unsolicited explicit images. There is a need for legal and societal responses in response.
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.
We need to look at the roots of gendered violence, including the experiences and behaviours of perpetrators.
There are big gaps in the way schools approach gender, sexuality and respect. Teaching all students to be ‘porn literate’ is one way we can help make them safer.
The Australian government will test tools to shield kids from inappropriate material online. Even though there’s no one easy fix, these checks could help.
Despite consistent messaging ‘we all have a role to play’ when it comes to stopping violence against women, actual guidance on what parents should do can be difficult to find.
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Professor, Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Professor and Research Leadership Chair, Sociology, University of Guelph
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