News & Views 1800RESPECT launches video counselling service for domestic violence support The national support service for domestic, family and sexual violence 1800RESPECT has launched an on-demand video counselling service.
News & Views We cannot achieve gender equality until we address the single biggest preventable risk factor that women face. Violence. We cannot ‘invest in women’ without addressing violence, writes Domestic Family and Sexual Violence Commissioner Micaela Cronin.
News & Views ‘Sexual reputation’ would no longer be admissible as evidence in government’s proposed Bill The Albanese government has proposed a new Bill to ensure the “sexual reputation” of rape complainants are inadmissible as evidence in federal courts.
Local New inquiry aims to improve how justice system responds to sexual violence The Australian government has asked the ALRC to make an inquiry into the justice system experience of victims of sexual violence.
News & Views High-profile names revealed in Jeffrey Epstein’s unsealed court documents. Here’s what you need to know The names of acquaintances of deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein were released in a set of previously sealed court documents
News & Views Domestic violence rates are unacceptably high. How can we demand change? People keep asking why aren’t we seeing a change in the unacceptably high rates of family, domestic and sexual violence.
News & Views Melbourne’s Jewish community demands greater solidarity with Israeli women Women from Melbourne’s Jewish community organised a vigil on Monday evening to show solidarity for the Israeli women attacked by Hamas.
News & Views Draft government action plan to end gender-based violence at uni The federal government has released a draft action plan to address high rates of gender-based violence at Australian universities.
News & Views Five-year plan for ending violence against women released today Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWS) is launching a five-year plan to end violence against women.
News & Views Chanel Contos on Australia’s potential to be a world leader in the prevention of sexual violence Chanel Contos says Australia can be a world leader in preventing sexual violence if we take a whole of community approach.
Politics ‘Women’s Day Off’: Icelandic women to stop all paid and unpaid work to protest gender pay gap and violence rates Women in Iceland will take part in a Women’s Day Off, striking over the nation’s gender pay gap and the prevalence of gender-based violence.
News & Views Loud applause as man receives 32 year sentence for murder of teenager Michelle Bright The NSW Supreme Court has sentenced a man to at least 24 years in prison for the murder of a teenage girl in 1999.