In her new Quarterly Essay, anti-violence campaigner Jess Hill asks whether the government’s response to gender-based violence is fit for purpose.
Articles on National Plan to end Violence against Women and Children
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Kathryn Joy’s father murdered their mother. A new Australian documentary traces eight years of a journey of self-discovery, through Kathryn tracing their family’s violent history.
The problem of tech-facilitated abuse will remain if the police and courts don’t start taking it seriously.
All of us have lost loved ones. Each of us know First Nations women and children who have been murdered and disappeared. This inquiry was welcome – but its recommendations fall far short of justice.
While the actions outlined in the plans are admirable, achieving the set targets will require a significant increase in urgency and funding.
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.
A new ten-year plan to end violence against women and children has some significant strengths, but it also has some deficits, and details are still to be released.
The findings are a stark reminder men’s violence against women is a national crisis and system reform is urgent.
There is a crisis in women’s safety but the commitments are piecemeal and some aren’t even new.
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Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University
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ARC Future Fellow and Professor of Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Social Work; Leneen Forde Chair in Child & Family Research, Griffith University
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Professor of Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Managing Director, Her Story Consulting & Postdoctoral fellow, Australian National University
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Co-coordinator of the Tangentyere Youth Safety Group, and Northern Territory Aboriginal Domestic, Family, and Sexual Violence Advisory Group, Indigenous Knowledge
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Co-coordinator of Tangentyere Women’s Family Safety Group, Indigenous Knowledge
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Professor in History, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Languages, UNSW
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Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, University of Liverpool
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Lecturer in Criminology, University of Liverpool
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Co-Founder and Managing Director of Her Story, lead on U Right Sis? project, Indigenous Knowledge