The potential risk of brain injury playing sport is well-documented, but less-known is the effects of intimate partner violence on the brain. New research is aiming to change that.
While the actions outlined in the plans are admirable, achieving the set targets will require a significant increase in urgency and funding.
We need not just an acknowledgement of children as victim-survivors in their own right, but a commitment to boost resourcing of child-centred recovery support.
We need a different and tailored approach to preventing violent deaths in older people, who are among the most vulnerable in our society.
Examining the similarities and differences between Australian and Brazilian policies towards gender-based violence.
A study reveals that filicide is a regular occurrence in Australia, not a rare one.
Better access to data is desperately needed to better understand the phenomenon in order to prevent it.
Despite having a code of practice in place for investigating incidents, police duty failures are all too common.
The killing of a parent by his or her child is a relatively uncommon form of family violence. We need to know much more about it to prevent it.
The Turnbull government's budget has failed to match its expressed desire to take violence against women seriously.
Police are now treating perpetrators as seriously as terrorists and murderers.
Scrapping the offence was a mistake and has left the law inflexibile in dealing with homicide offences.
New law is often seen as an answer in tackling intimate partner and family violence, but our research shows it is not always the best response.
Police can misidentify victims as offenders because the real perpetrator has misled them.
At least one woman a week is killed by a man in Australia. A new research project aims to find pathways to prevention.
Family violence has been dragged into the open in countries around the world.
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