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Jasmine McGowan Manager of the Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre

Disarming gendered disablism

A new toolkit aims to give women living with disability an avenue to tackle abuse, and to support them to escape community and at-home violence.

A new toolkit aims to give women living with disability an avenue to tackle abuse, and to support them to escape community and at-home violence.

Sharon Pickering Professor of Criminology, Dean of Arts

Ending family violence is everybody’s responsibility

Monash is recognised for the strength of its gender scholarship, health and legal research, education, industry engagement and commitment to social justice.

Monash is recognised for the strength of its gender scholarship, health and legal research, education, industry engagement and commitment to social justice.

Mary Jean Walker Research Fellow, Philosophy

Ethical concerns over drug-testing plan

Drug testing of welfare recipients does not pass the test of being worth the costs and is not ethically acceptable policy.

Drug testing of welfare recipients does not pass the test of being worth the costs and is not ethically acceptable policy.

Medicine and health

Thea Brown Emeritus Professor, Department of Social Work

Medicine and health

When parents kill

A study reveals that filicide is a regular occurrence in Australia, not a rare one.

A study reveals that filicide is a regular occurrence in Australia, not a rare one.

Jude McCulloch Professor of Criminology

Counting intimate partner homicides

Better access to data is desperately needed to better understand the phenomenon in order to prevent it.

Better access to data is desperately needed to better understand the phenomenon in order to prevent it.

Jacqui True Professor of International Relations and Director, of the Gender, Peace and Security Centre

What's turning young men into killing machines?

A deeper examination of gender is sorely needed to try to prevent further acts of violent extremism and terrorism.

A deeper examination of gender is sorely needed to try to prevent further acts of violent extremism and terrorism.

Marie Segrave Associate Professor of Criminology

Dowry abuse: a growing problem in Australia

To address it, dowry abuse first needs to be recognised as a key form of economic abuse within the broader framework of domestic and family violence.

To address it, dowry abuse first needs to be recognised as a key form of economic abuse within the broader framework of domestic and family violence.

A Different Lens

Episode 11: The Australian identity debate

Australia once identified itself as the “lucky country”, a place where the “Aussie battler” was given a fair go, but can it still lay claim to this?

Luke Beck Associate Professor, Law Resources

Australia once identified itself as the “lucky country”, a place where the “Aussie battler” was given a fair go, but can it still lay claim to this?

Stephen Gray Senior Lecturer, Law Resources

Falling through the gap

A genuine partnership needs to be established between the government and Aboriginal people to get Closing the Gap targets back on track.

A genuine partnership needs to be established between the government and Aboriginal people to get Closing the Gap targets back on track.

Becky Batagol Associate Professor at Monash Sustainable Development Institute and the Faculty of Law

Gender equality: it's everyone's business

We need to think about the problems that men and women face not as competing priorities but as part of the same toxic social problem.

We need to think about the problems that men and women face not as competing priorities but as part of the same toxic social problem.

Kate Fitz-Gibbon Senior Lecturer in Criminology

NT child detention: what's changed?

One year after the royal commission into Northern Territory child detention recommended big changes, little of substance has been done to tackle the problem by the NT Labor government.

One year after the royal commission into Northern Territory child detention recommended big changes, little of substance has been done to tackle the problem by the NT Labor government.

Kate Fitz-Gibbon Senior Lecturer in Criminology

The leading threat to women's safety

Men’s violence continues to threaten, restrict and harm the lives of Victorian women at alarming levels.

Men’s violence continues to threaten, restrict and harm the lives of Victorian women at alarming levels.