🚨 New open access article:
Exploring the Outcomes of Divergent Approaches to the Policy Making Process: Domestic Violence Disclosure Schemes and Perpetrator Registers in Australia.

The article calls for a return to principled policy making processes, underpinned by a…

Heading home from Geneva after an outstanding three days spending time with the most incredible group of passionate and inspiring human beings - each committed in their own fields and countries to making the world better. #WEF24 #YGL24

Time to see that helping children who experience violence is the powerful ‘prevention’ we have been ignoring for too long.

Amanda Rishworth MP

Our new article examines the role perpetrator interventions can play in recognising children and young people as victim survivors in their own right. It is open access:
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

'We never turn anyone away, so we are constantly juggling to save lives and avoid the funding cliff that's always looming in front of us.' ⁦Antoinette Braybrook AM. YES⁩ speaks to ⁦Claudia Long⁩ ⁦ABC News⁩ abc.net.au/news/2024-05-0…

The rising incidence of women’s deaths as a result of male violence in Australia has prompted some to call for the wider use of domestic violence disclosure schemes, but research by Monash University Professor Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon, and Lecturer Ellen Reeves and Professor Sarah…

New open access article:
Our article examines the degree to which the visibility of children & young people as victim-survivors in their own right could be brought to the fore in perpetrator intervention policy & practice in Australia.

👉🏼 Read here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The government wants to end gender-based violence in one generation but they have forgotten about children.

Nowhere in the political announcements and promises are children as victim-survivors in their own right considered, experts say.
womensagenda.com.au/latest/the-gov…

The Victims of Crime Commission (Vic) is seeking expressions of interest for its lived experience program. If you or someone you know are keen to share your ideas on how the justice and victims support systems could be improved check out the details below shorturl.at/fhAJU

‘In preparing this report, it became immediately apparent that there is currently no source of information which monitors government funding of domestic, family and sexual violence in Australia.’

Very hard to measure impact when you don’t have overall visibility, & where you’re…

“It should not be enough for children to merely survive a childhood of violence, we have a responsibility to support their recovery and healing” Important article published in Women's Agenda on why further emphasis on children as victim-survivors is needed.

Really important article about why we need to consider children in their own right & respond & invest accordingly.

'It should not be enough for children to merely survive a childhood of violence, we have a responsibility to support their recovery and healing.' 👇

Why #Domesticviolence disclosure schemes (National register) may not improve safety for victim-survivors of intimate partner violence theconversation.com/domestic-viole…

In recent weeks children as victim-survivors in their own right have been invisible in political announcements & actions. Their experiences silenced & ignored.

Ending gender-based violence in one generation necessitates a transformational focus on delivering improved outcomes…

It's been a devastating month for victim-survivors and those working to stop violence against women.

The Royal Commission laid the groundwork for what must come next –comprehensive action to prevent and disrupt the cycle of violence at every opportunity.

respectvictoria.vic.gov.au/lasting-change…

Arrived in Geneva ahead of a three day retreat for the World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders 2024 class. Afternoon walk past the United Nations Geneva, a site I’ve seen so many time in photos but never visited in person.

This really is a must read article: “Six out of 10 men behind bars in the NT are there on charges relating to DV. Despite these high rates, there are only two men's behaviour change programs in the Territory.” abc.net.au/news/2024-05-0…

Our joint statement today on domestic and family violence - calling on the NSW government to act, now.

There are no excuses.

Chris Minns

Hidden behind the death count are women trapped in a cycle of abuse and coercive control; women being raped, victim-blamed, stalked, groped and discriminated against. All we’re asking men to do is challenge the inequality and disrespect that props this up. It’s not much to ask.