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Concern for their pets’ safety can lead women to delay leaving their abusers. Better on-site pet services in women’s shelters would enable them to seek help without fear for their animals’ well-being.
High profile stories of femicide come with a flare up of societal outrage, protest and collective introspection. But nothing ever really changes.
Depression may lead pregnant women to engage in suicidal behaviour. But the socioeconomic contexts pregnant women are in may also contribute to their suicide risk.
A new study has revealed heavy episodic drinking doubles the risk of family and domestic violence.
Has the Coalition government cut $35 million from frontline legal services for victims of domestic and family violence?
A study being launched today by Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety confirms the serious impacts of intimate partner violence.
Threats to humiliate an intimate partner by sharing explicit photos or video is an old problem with a new digital twist, a new study finds.
For pregnant HIV-positive women taking anti-retrovirals is critical for their babies’ health. Intimate partner violence affects adherence, and must be addressed as part of women’s HIV treatment.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people experience family and sexual violence at rates similar to, or higher than, heterosexual women.
Not only are women in regional and rural areas more likely to experience partner violence than their city counterparts, it’s more difficult to leave and re-establish a new life.
Victoria’s Royal Commission into Family Violence will today hear how the health system can better respond to partner abuse, with the help of trained professionals and broader, government support.
For every woman who reports domestic abuse, many more remain silent through fear, shame or simply because they don’t know who to turn to. But new digital programs could help.
By mapping alcohol’s role in domestic violence, a report published today lifts the lid on the plight of numerous Australian adults and children whose lives are negatively affected by a family member with…
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Professor of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Monash University
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Managing Director, Her Story Consulting & Postdoctoral fellow, Australian National University
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Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, University of Liverpool
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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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Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Public Health, University of Michigan
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology, University of Windsor
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Professor of Social Work; Leneen Forde Chair in Child & Family Research, Griffith University
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Associate professor, Monash University
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Associate Professor of Criminology, Simon Fraser University
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Honorary Associate Professor, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer in Criminology, Sheffield Hallam University
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Associate Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Windsor
