A new ten-year plan to end violence against women and children has some significant strengths, but it also has some deficits, and details are still to be released.
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Young women lack voice and visibility in discussions about family violence in Australia, and particularly intimate partner violence. This must change, urgently.
After separation, mothers who experienced domestic violence on average suffered a drop in income of 34%, compared with a 20% decrease for mothers who didn’t experience domestic violence.
Young people who experienced violence between other family members, and had been directly subjected to abuse, were 9.2 times more likely to use violence in the home.
As well as abuse, many Australian have also experienced threats of harm and harassing behaviour.
In Australia, the discussion around gendered violence is increasingly focused on diversity. However, policy and services continue to be based mostly on the experiences of white, Anglo-settler women.
In a new report, child family violence survivors describe how family court worsened their trauma and profoundly affected their well-being even into adult life.
Survivors of violence, and those working to support survivors, want to see programs that focus on getting the first response right, every time.
New research shows how threats of self-harm and suicide are a tactic of coercive control men use against female partners.
The murder of R. Rubuntja brings to light the ways Australian media and the Australian justice system continues to fail First Nations women.
There is a crisis in women’s safety but the commitments are piecemeal and some aren’t even new.
First Nations women are disproportionately more likely to be targets of online abuse. More needs to be done to respond to and support women experiencing technology-facilitated abuse.
A new study finds that while there have been improvements in the way victim-survivors are treated at work, there is still much to be done.
The Northern Territory has the highest rates of domestic, family, and sexual violence in Australia. The Tangentyere women’s group shows how prevention projects can address gender inequality.
Private and public violence rely on each other as forces that work together to ensure women and girls ‘stay in their place’ — the one that patriarchal social structures have prescribed.
When tech companies aim for ‘safety by design’, they can reduce the risk their products will be weaponised for stalking and domestic violence.
With 95% of households in Afghanistan not consuming enough food and the economy on the brink of collapse, this is a perilous time for the children of the country.
Expanding police powers in dealing with family violence comes with considerable risks to victim-survivors, and should be treated with caution.
A French trial will use virtual reality headsets to trigger empathy in perpetrators. But previous research findings suggest we need to be sceptical of claims about what the technology can do.
LGBTQ+ communities experience violence and abuse at similar, if not greater rates than cisgender, heterosexual women. Their stories need to be heard.
Principais colaboradores
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Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Monash University
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Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Social Work; Leneen Forde Chair in Child & Family Research, Griffith University
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Emeritus Professor Monash University, Monash University
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Professor, Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT 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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Criminal Law Researcher, Deakin University
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Professor, Centre for Women's Studies & Gender Research, Sociology, Monash University
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Managing Director, Her Story Consulting & Postdoctoral fellow, Australian National University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, The University of Melbourne
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ARC Future Fellow and Professor of Criminology, Monash University
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Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Family Violence Prevention, Royal Women's Hospital and the Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne
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Lead Researcher with the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre and Lecturer in Criminology at the Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Monash University
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Professor of Law, Discipline of Law, Justice and Society, University of South Australia
