CEVAW Analysis

This article examines recommendations from Aboriginal Community-Controlled Organisations (ACCOs) in submissions to Australian federal parliamentary inquiries that considered family violence.

Increasingly, suicide is being linked with histories of domestic and family violence. While some abusive partners kill their victim in a context of domestic and family violence and then claim it was suicide, in other cases the cause of death may be less directly connected to the abusive partner.

This paper highlights the student-led Sexual Misconduct and Bystander Intervention Training program’s potential and argues for further research to inform best practice across Australian university sexual violence prevention initiatives

Fifty years ago, the first women's refuge opened in Sydney. Today, Australia has national plans, specialist police units, landmark legislation, and a sector of hundreds of organisations. So what has actually changed – and what hasn't?

Professors Heather Douglas, Julia Tolmie and Kyllie Cripps bring legal expertise, research insights and lived experience to unpack the limits of the current justice system – and what we should be asking instead.