Women’s safety

Climate disasters can increase violence against women and girls, while placing greater care burdens on those already facing inequality.

Victoria needs coercive control laws to recognise abuse, protect victim-survivors and prevent further violence within abusive relationships.

The Sydney Swans scandal shows how football culture still protects players while women are left to carry the burden of sexual violence.

When sexual violence, housing insecurity and institutional neglect collide, women are too often punished instead of protected.

Djirra is building a future where Aboriginal women and children are safe, supported and able to stay together in community.

Australia’s gender-based violence crisis continues as survivors demand governments listen, act and prevent violence before more women die.

Family violence is reaching devastating new highs across Australia, but funding still falls far short of what women need.

Gender equality faces growing backlash, and International Women’s Day must refocus on rights, solidarity, and girls’ futures.

The day after Concetta’s win on ‘I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here’, 1800 FULL STOP received almost double the number of calls.

Central Tablelands & Blue Mountains Community Legal Centre has $800,000 in funding to 2030, nowhere near enough for the volume of need.

It’s far easier to condemn reality TV abuse than change the systems that allow sexual violence to continue.

Hate crime laws won’t protect women if they expand a criminal system that already fails, silences and endangers us.