News & Views Why are family violence services losing government support? Why are legal and community centres experiencing funding cuts when women, more than ever, need to seek refuge from abusive partners and need support?
News & Views Dr Sophie Yates wins top honours for PhD on family violence Dr Yates’ thesis, a critical frame analysis of Victoria’s Royal Commission into Family Violence was named Best HDR Doctoral Thesis.
News & Views An attempt to stop the ‘unnecessary & dangerous’ family law inquiry failed A motion filed by Senator Larissa Waters to stop the government’s controversial family law inquiry failed 33 to 27 on Tuesday.
News & Views Law Council: Family law inquiry will fail if ‘misguided by myths’ Law Council of Australia President Arthur Moses SC says family law reform has to be based on facts not slogans and myths.
News & Views What happened after I saw a woman assaulted by her partner in broad daylight Tarla Lambert was having a bbq with friends when an altercation broke out at the next table. A woman assaulted by her partner in broad daylight.
News & Views Why is the government funding couples counselling that experts say puts women at risk? The government is spending $10million on “couples counselling” despite the fact in the context of domestic violence it is contraindicated for victim safety.
News & Views UN Women flagship report reveals families hold the key to global gender inequality UN Women released their flagship report Progress of the World’s Women 2019-2020: Families in a Changing World on Tuesday.
News & Views Victims of domestic violence in Australia ten times more likely to experience other legal problems A NSW Law & Justice Foundation report shows domestic violence victims, on average, faced 20 legal problems in the last year compared to 2 for non-victims.
News & Views ‘Real money, concrete support’: Labor pledges $660 million in domestic violence prevention Labor has promised to commit more than $660 million to reducing family violence in Australia.
News & Views In debt, having an affair & murdering his family: Yet people raised their kids having autism. Disturbing details have been revealed at a coronial inquest into the apparent murder suicide of Maria Lutz and her children Elisa and Martin.
News & Views Natalia & Tamara know the dangers of abusive relationships. They both survived & they’re speaking up. Natalia and Tamara both experienced extreme violence in an abusive relationship and they are both speaking publicly about it to create change.
News & Views The saddest map of Australia you will ever see Every heart on the Australian Femicide Map represents a woman or a child lost to violence. The project is run by The Red Heart Campaign’s Sherele Moody.