News & Views Small businesses are renting apartments to house women escaping domestic violence Small businesses are making huge leaps to support women escaping from domestic violence by donating temporary housing to them.
News & Views Indigenous woman’s death in car crash in Darwin considered a death in custody An Indigenous woman has died in a car crash involving police in Darwin, in what is being treated as a death in custody.
News & Views New investigation reveals how badly police have failed survivors of sexual assault A ground-breaking investigation by ABC News has revealed, for the first time, the outcome of nearly every sexual assault reported to the police in Australia between 2008 and 2017.
News & Views Why are NSW police strip searching girls as young as 12? A report in The Guardian reveals that police in NSW have strip-searched 122 girls under the age of 18 since 2016, including girls as young as 12.
News & Views Women have made many inroads in policing, but barriers remain to achieving gender equity A third of all police personnel in Australia are women, but in some areas, the rates of women are trending in the wrong direction, writes Terry Goldsworthy.
News & Views ‘This is about men’s behaviour’: Assistant Commissioner on Courtney Herron’s death A young woman Courtney Herron, was found murdered in a Melbourne park. Assistant Commissioner Luke Cornelius said men’s behaviour needs to be examined.
