Domestic violence can increase amid bushfires, but Australia has a poor track record of responding to it. With a hot summer ahead, authorities are warned to prepare.
The federal government’s announcement of $3.5 million to fund a healthy masculinities project trial is promising, but lacks detail on precisely how the funds will be used, and what will inform the programs.
While the actions outlined in the plans are admirable, achieving the set targets will require a significant increase in urgency and funding.
Despite a national plan to end violence against women and children, there’s no demonstrable evidence of a change of pace, or the emergency interventions needed, to achieve it.
Sexual violence and family violence intersect, but little is known about how responses to perpetrators address intimate partner sexual violence.
Why the work to hold family violence offenders accountable is only just beginning.
Gang rape, sexual assaults at gunpoint, and rapes committed in front of children were among some of the accounts emerging from Ukraine’s capital Kyiv last month.
Neither Scott Morrison nor Anthony Albanese has prioritised a commitment to recognising and reducing men’s violence in their election pitch. They haven’t even uttered the words “violence against women”.
Single Australian women over 60 are the most likely to live in poverty, earning less than $30,000 a year, and it's taking a heavy emotional toll, with mental distress on the rise.
Scott Morrison's remarks in response to a question about Will Smith’s Oscars’ slap risk being a dog whistle, fuelling and cultivating a culture of male violence.
There’s a crisis in women’s safety, but the budget commitments are piecemeal – and some aren’t even new.
The actions of Chris Rock and Will Smith at the Oscars ceremony expose many of the toxic problems with masculinity today.
A new report calls for a whole-of-system response that sees women who are misidentified as predominant aggressors having their own safety needs acknowledged and addressed.
There are ingrained barriers to how far dating app Bumble can go towards emancipating women from the old-fashioned courtship power dynamics it claims to be shifting.
Recent incidents involving female athletes underscore a long history of sexualisation and policing of women’s bodies and behaviours, but things are changing, albeit slowly.
Female prisoner numbers have skyrocketed over the past decade, and an overwhelming majority of them have experienced domestic violence.
A very personal call to action to change the conversation around gender-based violence.
Systemic sexism, harassment and bullying are not a new storyline for the CFA – surely it’s time to stop suppressing the fire and start fully-involved reform?
Like the US, Australia’s "massage parlours" are reliant on the prostitution, fetishisation and trafficking of Asian women.
While Australians demand change, the silence from Canberra on violence against women and gender inequality is a national shame.
Xanana Gusmao’s recent visit to a disgraced priest in Timor-Leste proves patriarchal forces are still very much in play.
The early phase of a scheme aimed at closing glaring gaps in information-sharing about family violence is starting to pay off.
More women are turning to online or telephone support for family violence during the second COVID-19 lockdown, while more men are also seeking help for abusive behaviour.
COVID-19 has proved that the homelessness problem is solvable, but will Australia make good on its human rights obligations once the pandemic has passed?
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