Victoria has announced new teaching resources to tackle the influence of “manosphere” figures among students, but we still don’t have a clear picture of sexism and harassment in our schools.
Dead Boy Detectives is the latest in a long line of queer shows on streaming platforms to be cancelled. Now, queer fans online are fighting back.
New data from Victoria shows that in a quarter of deaths by suicide between 2009 and 2016, the person had experienced family violence before they died.
Programs to help men to stop using violence are crucial, but are men meaningfully engaging with them? A new study found opportunities to increase engagement and, in doing so, better-protect women.
To rightfully claim the minute’s silence meant more than virtue signalling, the AFL must remove the boys’ club barriers that still pervade football.
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?
It’s a “national crisis”, and almost $1 billion of initiatives have been announced to combat it, but these measures don’t address the foundational issues that have seen gendered violence marginalised.
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.
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