A domestic violence disclosure scheme is a resource people can check to find out if a particular person has a documented history of domestic violence, but how well does it work?
We should celebrate the fact this bill is passing through parliament. It shows the government has responded to insistent calls for change to protect families. However, there are two key concerns.
Funding initiatives show an emerging agenda for transformation, recognition of the specificity of temporary migrants’ experiences of family violence, and the need for system reforms.
Recognition of forced marriage as a form of family violence paves the way for victim-survivors to seek help, but are the support systems set up for it?
While it’s positive to see recognition from the Commonwealth government that the existing Family Violence Provision safety net needs changing, piecemeal intervention won’t go far enough to address underlying structural conditions that undermine women’s searches for safety.
It’s hoped the results of a broad, first-of-its-kind Australian government inquiry will lead to strong legal frameworks regarding abortion and contraception access.
The October 2022 budget marks a departure from the “blokier” budgets of recent years, centring gender equality and the care economy rather than high-vis and hard hats.
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women has achieved a great deal in the past 40 years, but there remains more work to do in Australia.
The four main contributors to poor mental health in older women include illness and disability, financial insecurity, maltreatment, and loss and grief.
Short-term measures don't address the fundamental systemic issues that lead these vulnerable women into danger.
How do we use digital technologies to make healthcare more accessible?
How big does the problem have to be before something is done about it?
The COVID-19 pandemic is bringing many families back together for dinner, but for others it's harder than ever to put food on the table.
The urgency of the risks and issues facing women on temporary visas is dangerously heightened by COVID-19.
Examining the similarities and differences between Australian and Brazilian policies towards gender-based violence.
A glaring gap in Australia's migration system is failing victims of gendered violence.
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.
A sudden funding change plunged a youth service into an existential crisis. To survive required a radical shift in how it operated.
The Turnbull government's budget has failed to match its expressed desire to take violence against women seriously.
The government's proposed redress scheme for victims of institutional child sexual abuse controversially excludes some victims
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