CEVAW Conversations Podcasts

Knowing and Doing: 50 Years of Change in the DFV Sector

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?

Pillar 2 - Contexts Pillar 3 - Responses Impact of Institutions Frontline Practice Responses Legal Responses Family Violence Policies Domestic violence Prevention of VAW Criminalisation 2026

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.

Pillar 3 - Responses Pillar 4 - Indigenous Legal Responses Future Lives and VAW Justice System Prevention of VAW Criminalisation