domestic violence

A horror start to October has seen eight women killed in ten days. Six were killed at home and in seven cases the person charged was known to the victim.

How many people have to die before our leaders do what so many advocates have said needs to be done to prevent family violence? Tarang Chawla asks.

It’s the third mass murder in four months: police found twin girls, their three-and-a-half-year-old sister, their mother & their grandmother all deceased.

Without appropriate legal aid funding the Law Council of Australia says the proposed ban on cross examining DV survivors will not be realised.

An updated resource for judges in Australia dispels a number of myths about domestic violence that can impede justice and put women at risk.

When four of the five lead stories on a newspaper’s website relate to women being killed in their homes, domestic violence is a crisis.

The Teacher’s Pet a podcast series by Hedley Thomas for The Australian is exploring the mysterious disappearance of Lyn Dawson in January of 1982.

A 48-year old mother, her 8-year old son & 15-year old daughter were killed on Sunday morning, means 8 people have been killed in their homes in 11 days.

On the 7th of July 2018 3 women were found dead, two in Victoria and one in NSW. It takes the toll of women killed violently in Australian this year to 34.

A 68 year old Sydney man has been found dead after he shot his two teenage children in Pennant Hills on Thursday night: A father kills his children.

Thousands gathered in the Melbourne park last night where Eurydice Dixon was murdered last week to grieve and speak out about violence against women.

Domestic violence is deadly. Twenty four Australian women have been killed violently in the first five months of 2018: research by the Counting Dead Women Australia researchers of Destroy The Joint indicates that at least two thirds of those were killed by a former or current partner.