News & Views North Sydney family violence service continues legacy of female leadership with new Chair North Sydney’s community-led family violence service, Mary’s House, is welcoming new leadership and honouring their outgoing Chair.
News & Views ‘Flood society with help’: Full Stop Australia gives platform to 12 domestic violence survivors to advocate for change FullStop Australia has just announced the advisory group to their National Survivor Advocate Program– twelve people with lived experience.
News & Views Only 3 per cent of women fleeing family violence receive the long term housing they need New analysis shows only 3 per cent of women fleeing family violence received long term housing for the 2020 and 2021 financial years.
News & Views This Melbourne Cup, alcohol and sport collide. Forget the horses. It’s domestic violence we should be watching for For years, we’ve taken major sporting events, a public holiday, added alcohol and gambling, then watched domestic violence rates rise.
News & Views Energy retailers will need to protect family violence victims in new rules The Australian Energy Market Commission has published new rules that will see energy retailers better protect customers affected by family violence.
News & Views Women who suffer domestic violence fare much worse financially after separating from their partner: new data 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.
News & Views How Mel Thomas is teaching others to beat the cycle of domestic violence Founder of the KYUP! Project, Mel Thomas, shares her personal story on the latest episode of The Leadership Lessons podcast.
News & Views Domestic violence: The forgotten pandemic with no vaccine Domestic violence is equally universal and indiscriminate as COVID-19, marring every singly society worldwide.
News & Views Let’s change the conversation around family violence to include experiences of LGBTIQ+ people Recent research shows that 6 in 10 LGBTIQ+ people have experienced family violence. A new campaign wants to change the conversation.
Health Women’s mental health suffers as misogyny prevails in our parliament Women’s mental health has been disproportionately impacted upon by the COVID-19 pandemic, writes Dr Skye Kinder.
Politics Government urges domestic violence victims to strip superannuation early to fund their own crisis response Victims of family and domestic violence will now be able to strip $10,000 from their retirement savings to fund their own crisis response.
News & Views We need to talk about family violence perpetrators There remains much to do to shift to the burden of family violence from victim-survivors to the perpetrators, writes Jacqui Watt.