While the actions outlined in the plans are admirable, achieving the set targets will require a significant increase in urgency and funding.
This week, Monash University's “What Happens Next?” podcast investigates how making reproductive healthcare inaccessible hurts us all.
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.
Recreating workplace experiences through simulation is an effective learning tool, one in which people can practise how they might respond to sometimes difficult situations.
Will there be new opportunities for criminals to use 5G technologies and mobile applications – with higher speeds and more reliability – to conduct crime?
We need a different and tailored approach to preventing violent deaths in older people, who are among the most vulnerable in our society.
Australia has an opportunity to design a recovery strategy that strengthens our resilience to future shocks and ensures the country’s long-term, sustainable prosperity.
Racism shapes the war on drugs, and we can't make black lives truly matter without major law reforms.
Examining the similarities and differences between Australian and Brazilian policies towards gender-based violence.
The need for physical autopsies may be reduced through a project in which digital 3D anatomical models can more accurately map bullet trajectories.
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.
Only a small number are predicted to take advantage of the legislation from mid-2019.
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.
Politicians' language surrounding the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill tells us tells us much about how they feel about the issue, and the emotional response they aim to convey
The government's proposed redress scheme for victims of institutional child sexual abuse controversially excludes some victims
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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