A year since its royal commission reported, Victoria continues to lead the nation in how to respond to, and prevent, family violence.
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Women living in high financial stress and those who have a disability or chronic health condition are most at risk of economic abuse.
Following Victoria’s Royal Commission into Family Violence, should the state change the way it sentences offenders?
Police remain critical in the effort to tackling family violence in all its forms. But more than just a commitment to extra police and training is needed to improve outcomes for victim-survivors.
A new study has revealed heavy episodic drinking doubles the risk of family and domestic violence.
The Turnbull government has announced it will strengthen the law relating to family violence.
Australia is now having a national conversation on domestic violence. Yet the way violence degrades women’s financial status remains in the shadows. Much more needs to be done.
Has the Coalition government cut $35 million from frontline legal services for victims of domestic and family violence?
Violence against women is a national priority, and Aboriginal women are disproportionately affected. This must be reported on appropriately in the media.
Initial experience indicates that private security companies can provide a beneficial service to victims of family violence, but there are still concerns that need to be addressed.
A study being launched today by Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety confirms the serious impacts of intimate partner violence.
The uneven provisioning of poker machines across Victoria may be contributing to the incidence of domestic violence in areas with many poker machines.
A domestic violence disclosure scheme does not in itself assist people to achieve safety from an abusive partnership.
Thousands of Australian men are sitting on waiting lists every year to get help to end their violent behaviour – even though behaviour change programs can reduce their likelihood of offending again.
Political parties should commit to supporting the evidence-based recommendations of decades worth of reports into family violence.
While there is still some way to go, media reporting of violence against women and children has improved markedly in recent years.
Adding to the trauma of a relationship breaking down, families can find themselves caught in a tangle of state and commonwealth laws.
To formulate better policy on family violence, we need to understand economic abuse.
Victoria’s big-spending budget will fund education and services, but infrastructure is the big winner.
The Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence put the pressure on banks to respond to economic abuse. Now the banks are taking the first steps.
Top contributors
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Professor of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, 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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Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, University of Liverpool
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Professor, Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Emeritus Professor Monash University, Monash University
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Professor, Centre for Women's Studies & Gender Research, Sociology, Monash University
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Criminal Law Researcher, Deakin University
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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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Managing Director, Her Story Consulting & Postdoctoral fellow, Australian National 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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Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Sociology, 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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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
