Restorative Justice or Colonial Compromise?
This paper examines the healing potential of community-led, culturally grounded programs as a response to family violence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
Books, Articles and PhDs
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Feminist Legal Theory
This chapter provides an introduction to feminist legal traditions in Australia for readers to understand how they are rigorous and politically original, and open to be joined, and developed.
Still Falling Short: Aboriginal Children’s Rights and Victoria’s Child Protection System
Victoria’s child protection system continues to harm Aboriginal children and violate their rights, requiring a rights-based reimagining within current Treaty negotiations.
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Submission to the Australian Government's consultation on the Second Action Plan (2027– 2032) under the National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children 2022–2032
The ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW) welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Australian Government's consultation on the Second Action Plan (2027–2032).
Pillar 1 - Causes/Costs
Pillar 2 - Contexts
Pillar 3 - Responses
Pillar 4 - Indigenous
Prevalence and Change
Community Effects of VAW
Migration and Trafficking
Harnessing of Technology
Future Lives and VAW
2026
First Nations People
Religion
Submissions
Justice System
Climate
Technology-Facilitated Violence
Suicide+DV
Judicial Officers and Best Practice: Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Experience of Family Violence Protection Order Proceedings. Literature Review.
Shaped by intersecting experiences of family violence, structural inequality, and racial discrimination, most often within mainstream courts.
CEVAW Conversations Podcasts
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Does criminalisation prevent violence against women?
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.
Videos
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HDR Showcase 3 Minute Thesis - Charlotte (Charlie) Hock
Charlotte (Charlie) Hock interrogates the promises and pitfalls of justice in intimate partner violence cases, contrasting punitive carceral responses with restorative justice.
HDR Showcase 3 Minute Thesis - Asaf Lone
Asaf Lone investigates how families of disappeared persons in Kashmir and Punjab pursue justice amid state denial and delay.
HDR Showcase 3 Minute Thesis - Allanah Colley
Allanah Colley analyses how specialist family violence courts in Victoria balance their therapeutic, problem-solving aims with the constraints of adversarial legal frameworks.