Stay up to date with local and national announcements and media headlines.
Jump to
View the archives
Child-Centred Practice after fatal family violence | REGISTER NOW!
WIRE’s Great Debate: “It’s A Rich Man’s World” | Capitol Theatre, 11 March | Read more This year, we’re turning our attention to money, exploring gender equity through the theme “It’s a rich man’s world” and unpacking the systemic barriers impacting women’s financial security.
Ending Men’s Family Violence | Hobart, 11-12 March | Register No to Violence, in collaboration with Stopping Family Violence and SPEAQ, is hosting their 2026 National Conference. This year’s theme is Ending Men’s Family Violence: From local practice to national strategy.
Pathways to Safety for First Nations Women and Children Forum | 10-12 March | Eora/Sydney | RegisterThe inaugural Pathways to Safety for First Nations Women and Children Forum will bring together community leaders, researchers, policymakers and practitioners.
Challenging Heteronormativity in Family Domestic and Sexual Violence Policy | La Trobe City Campus | 19 March The event will examine how heteronormative assumptions shape FDSV policy and practice and explore more inclusive, evidence-informed responses that better reflect LGBTQ+ communities | Register
Building respectful classrooms: Embedding equality in teaching and learning | Online, 26 Mar | | FREE | RegisterPresented by Our Watch, this webinar is designed for university, TAFE, VET and dual-sector educators and teaching staff who want to embed prevention and gender equality principles into everyday teaching practice and classroom culture. It will explore practical ways to embed gender equality, inclusion, and safety across teaching and learning, and will offer tools and strategies for creating respectful learning spaces.
Use of Self and Authenticity for Family Violence Professionals with Lived Experience | Online, 30 March | Read more This is for workers in any setting who have lived experience of family violence.
Listening to children when they are children | Online, 31 March | Read moreThe Australian National Research Agenda to End Violence against Women and Children 2023-2028 are holding a webinar on engaging children and young people as victim-survivors in their own right.
Top
Victoria expands legal definition of family violence | Parliament of Victoria | Read postReforms passed by the Victorian Parliament have broadened the legal definition of family violence to now capture behaviours such as stalking and systems abuse.
Understanding coercive control | Safe + Equal, 20 Feb | Read blogExplores what coercive control is, how common it is, and how our systems are responding to it.
Today is a day of justice for victim survivors of sexual assault in Victoria | SASVicThe Justice Liability (Vicarious Liability for Child Abuse) Bill passed the upper house of Victoria’s parliament yesterday unopposed | Read more
Acting on what we know: prevention, post-separation risk and the responsibility to respond | Dr Tessa Boyd-Caine, ANROWS CEO, Feb 2026 | Read articleThe evidence about separation, escalation and digital monitoring is not new. What remains urgent is implementation.
Funding Boost For Victoria’s Domestic, Family And Sexual Violence Response | Government media release, 20 Feb | Read more
The Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs has reopened its submissions until 13 March 2026 for the inquiry on the relationship between domestic, family and sexual violence victimisation and suicide, and how more accurate data and trends on DFSV deaths can be obtained.If you’d like more information or how to make a submission, or view submissions that have already been made, please visit here.
Please note that the Committee is unable to intervene on individual matters, and contributions that provide personal information will not be published. If you need support, contact: 1800RESPECT Australia on 1800 737 732 or visit 1800respect.com.au13YARN on 13 92 76.MENSLINE AUSTRALIA on 1300 78 99 78.
Our Ways – Strong Ways – Our Voices Launches | 10 Feb | Read moreToday marks an historic moment that recognises the leadership of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in building a future free from family, domestic and sexual violence. The plan will help us address Targets 12 and 13 of the National Agreement on Closing the Gap
Who organisations report allegations of reportable conduct or child safety concerns to is changing | CCYP, 9 Feb | Read moreFrom Monday 23 February, the Child Safe Standards and Reportable Conduct Scheme will move from the Commission for Children and Young People to the Social Services Regulator.
New family violence laws in Victoria mean stronger protections for victim‑survivors | Women’s Legal Service Victoria, 6 Feb | Read moreNew family violence laws passed in Victoria mean police and courts can no longer rely on a quick, incident-only assessment. They must now consider key factors to prevent victim-survivors being wrongly labelled as perpetrators.
Ending “good character” references in courts | Read article | Australian Childhood Foundation, 3 February
National Directory of Services for people who use violence If you come across relevant services who may be unaware of the National Directory, please refer them to the project webpage.
Recovery and healing after sexual or family violence
currently seeking to interview Dads who have lived experience of childhood abuse (whether family and/or sexual violence), and who would be willing to reflect on their own parenting journey as they also seek to recover and heal from the past.
Contact
Family and domestic violence (FDV) is a significant issue in families of both current and former members of the Australian Defence Force (ADF). Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWS) and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) have jointly funded this project, which will lay groundwork for monitoring trends in FDV through ongoing evidence production and translation involving existing data. This project will also ensure strategies are informed by a deep understanding of military cultural and organisational contexts, as well as veteran-centric systems, and how these contexts impact on disclosure and the continued use of FDV.Read more
MANTRA Study Read more
Louis Theroux’s Inside the Manosphere exposes the business model of misogyny | Read articleThe Conversation, 11 Mar
Louis Theroux’s new Netflix doco on the manosphere misses the story | Read articleWomen’s Agenda, 10 Mar
Exclusive: Government spends $41M on consent education with no framework | Read articleThe Saturday Paper, 6 Mar
Police told Kelly Wilkinson to ‘cool off’ and give estranged husband ‘a break’ days before he burned her to death, inquest hears | Read articleThe Guardian, 5 Mar
Peter Damjanovic jailed for brutal murder of partner Ms Woodley at her Bedford home | Read articleABC News, 5 Mar
Too many Indigenous women are killed by domestic violence. They are more than just numbers | Read articleThe Conversation, 4 Mar
UK parliament to debate whether all suicides linked to domestic abuse to be investigated as homicide | Read articleThe Guardian, 4 Mar
Police ‘missed opportunities’ before Kelly Wilkinson murder, inquest hears | Read articleABC News, 4 Mar
Domestic violence prevention sector rejects NT government’s mandatory sentencing bill | Read articleABC News, 3 Mar
Matthew Davey, who set ex-partner alight, charged with allegedly contacting her from prison | Read articleABC News, 2 Mar
She tried to leave her abusive partner. It cost Sophia her children | Read articleSydney Morning Herald, 2 Mar
Domestic violence accounts for 40pc of the more than 200 reported kidnappings that take place annually in NSW | Read articleABC News, 1 Mar
Australia’s masculine policing culture is failing women and children | Read articleThe Conversation, 20 Feb
Australian Hotels Association features on panel at SA’s domestic, family and sexual violence prevention forum | Read articleCrikey, 20 Feb
Big tech fails victim-survivors as abusers monitor their lives and curtail their freedom | Read articleCrickey, 19 Feb
Can we predict domestic homicide? New research suggests we can’t | Read articleThe Conversation, 18 February
Submissions reopened for inquiry into link between domestic, family and sexual violence and suicide | Read articleParliament of Australia, 13 February
Revealed: The true toll of female suicides with domestic abuse at their core | Read articleThe Guardian, 16 Feb
‘She’ll never know it’s there’: ‘Dangerous’ tracker still being promoted after watchdog breach | Read articleNews.com, 7 February
Samantha’s ex-partner isolated and abused her. He’s the first man in NSW to serve jail time for coercive control | Read articleSydney Morning Herald, 5 February
Online safety watchdog says tech giants failing to detect child abuse | Read articleABC News, 5 February
Illawarra man faces fresh sexual assault, choking and coercive control charges | Read articleABC News, 5 February
eSafety report shows while tech giants have made some progress they still have a long way to go in stamping out online child sexual abuse | Read articleeSafety Commissioner, 5 February
Young men need education to cope with rejection to keep women safe: DV experts | Read articleSydney Morning Herald, 4 February
NT to introduce strongest penalty for domestic violence murder in Australia | Read articleABC News, 3 February
Canberra man pleads guilty to murdering partner who died from significant injuries in their home | Read articleABC News, 3 February
Grandparents risking their financial security to help support adult children in Family Court matters | Read articleABC News, 2 February
Queensland police scrap specialist unit providing support for domestic and family violence cases | Read articleThe Guardian, 30 January
Gambling billionaire Laurence Escalante charged with family violence, assault, burglary offences | Read articleABC News, 30 January
Abusers using AI and digital tech to attack and control women, charity warns | Read articleThe Guardian, 30 January
For young Australians reluctant to call abuse helplines, a digital ‘support multiverse’ could break down barriers | Read articleThe Guardian, 29 January
Young victim-survivors say ‘shameful’ Victorian family violence response causes harm | Read articleABC News, 25 January
Police descend on remote town after possible sighting of alleged triple murderer | Read articleSBS News, 25 January
Roland Griffiths handed life sentence for Kylie Sheahan’s murder in 2022 house fire | Read articleABC News, 29 January
Paid family and domestic violence leave uptake ‘very low’ | Listen nowABC News, 21 January 2026
Women’s captain departs football club after men’s offensive Silly Saturday costumes | Read articleABC News, 20 January 2026
The woman who made her family disappear: how Karen Palmer escaped her abusive husband | Read articleThe Guardian, 14 January 2026
Former NRLW Blues captain Maddison Studdon facing domestic violence charge | Read articleABC News, 14 January 2026
Renowned author accused of engaging with paedophiles, sharing child abuse material | Read articleSBS News, 13 January 2026
National domestic violence commissioner, legal services say Katherine court unsafe for women | Read articleABC News, 12 January 2026
Watched, scared and trapped in an Australian visa nightmare, Kiran is one of India’s ‘abandoned brides’ | Read articleThe Guardian, 11 January 2026
Domestic violence survivor launches Queensland safe space initiative | Listen nowABC News, 8 January 2025
Domestic violence survivor launches ‘safe space’ initiative to help improve support in public areas | Read articleABC News, 6 January 2026
Repeated brain injuries linked to memory changes in intimate partner violence survivors, study finds | Read articleABC News, 5 January 2026
New code comes into effect to tackle gender violence at universities | Listen nowABC News, 5 January 2026
‘It’s important because we’re equal’: The push to make safe relationships more accessible | Read articleSBS News, 4 January 2026
Former Darwin councillor’s ex-partner speaks out after guilty domestic violence verdict | Read articleABC News, 3 January 2026
Domestic violence survivor calls for national register to stop perpetrators ‘exploiting’ loopholes | Read articleABC News, 23 December 2025
Data Reform Offers Opportunity to Strengthen Family Violence Responses in Victoria | Read moreNTV, 19 December 2025
From violence to sexism, the manosphere is doing real-world harm | Read articleThe Conversation, 11 December 2025
High demand, inadequate funding: report warns of mounting risk for victim survivors of family violence | Read articleSafe + Equal, 8 December 2025
Joint statement: coercive control reform must prioritise safety, not speed | Read articleSafe + Equal, 3 December 2025
When it comes to alcohol, gambling and domestic violence in Australia, it’s essential we connect the dots | Read articleThe Guardian, 30 November 2025
Governments must act on Lilie James Coronial Inquest findings: experts respond | Read article27 November 2025, Jesuit Social Services
Broken trust: how police failed Hannah Clarke and her children – Full Story podcast | Listen nowThe Guardian, 17 November
Women and kids often pay a heavy price when men drink. Our gender violence plan should reflect this | Read articleThe Conversation, 9 October 2025
Why landmark coercive control laws have only led to a handful of charges | Read articleSBS News, 19 September 2025
Some victim-survivors take their own lives. We need to better understand how suicide and family violence are linked | Read articleThe Conversation, 26 August 2025
Family violence workers say Victoria Police misidentifying victim-survivors as perpetrators | Read articleSBS News, 7 August 2025
Governments and police are tackling weapons in public – but they’re ignoring it in our homes | Read articleThe Conversation, 5 August 2025
‘I was very fearful of my parents’: new research shows how parents can use coercive control on their children | Read articleThe Conversation, 29 July 2025
Back to FVSV Hub
Information provided on this Knowledge Hub is curated to be the most recent and relevant available. While we strive to maintain the accuracy and timeliness of the information, we encourage users to check back frequently for new and refreshed materials.
