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.
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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.
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?
How Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ actions are framed and responded to can send a powerful message about our tolerance of men’s violence.
As Australia grapples with a violence against women crisis, major sporting codes are tinkering around the edges of the problem, and plenty more can be done.
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.
Our ongoing research has found sexism, sexual harassment and misogyny are rife in Australian schools. The federal government needs to lead a national campaign against this.
Croatia has become the latest in a string of nations to make killing women because of their gender a specific offence.
Nearly all countries in the region have criminalised either femicide or feminicide, which has had a tremendous impact on society.
Sometimes it’s easy to point to figures like Andrew Tate and assume they are the problem. But they are more likely a symptom of it.
Government bodies and community organisations have tried to tackle the problem of violence against women in marketing campaigns. Have they worked?
A domestic violence disclosure scheme is a resource people can check to find out if a particular person has a documented history of domestic violence.
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.
Women are overwhelmingly the victims of sexualised violence, and men are commonly the perpetrators.
The young men we surveyed mostly rejected traditional models of masculinity based on aggression, stoicism and homophobia, but a sizeable minority still support them.
In this podcast, we're joined by Dr Anne Summers, a longtime writer and advocate on women's issues to discuss the horrific number of women murdered this year.
Public focus on, and anger about, the horrifyingly high rates of violence against women is at fever pitch. What have the country’s leaders agreed to, and will it fix the problem?
Gender violence has captured the attention of policy makers and the public. There’s many things that can be done, both in the short and long term.
Half of the women homicide victims in 2022-23 were killed by a former or current partner.
Top contributors
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Professor, Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Monash University
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Professor of Social Work; Leneen Forde Chair in Child & Family Research, Griffith University
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Professor and Research Leadership Chair, Sociology, University of Guelph
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Criminology, Durham University
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Associate Professor in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Sociology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Center for Research on North America, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
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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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Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Communication Studies; Research Chair on Intersectionality, Violence and Resistance, Concordia University
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Associate Professor in Criminal Law, Durham University
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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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Associate Professor of Global Health, UCL
