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'Long awaited' reforms aim to curb permanent removal of Victorian Aboriginal children
The passing of new legislation in Victoria aimed at preventing the permanent sep...
Dechlan Brennan 4 Mar 2026
Vic Parliament urged to end 'cruel and punitive' deadlines for Aboriginal family reunification
One of Victoria's leading First Nations family support organisations has urged P...
Dechlan Brennan 2 Mar 2026
Advocates urge long-term funding to ensure new violence prevention strategy delivers lasting change
Advocates and legal groups have welcomed a new national strategy to end violence...
Dechlan Brennan 10 Feb 2026
Djirra’s 16 Days of ACTIVEism amplifies calls for urgent action to protect Aboriginal women and children
These are acts of resistance. Speaking at Djirra's 16 Days of ACTIVEism Festival...
Dechlan Brennan 5 Dec 2025
Report finds harmful police family violence practices widespread in Victoria
Harmful and discriminatory policing practices in family violence cases are "extr...
Dechlan Brennan 14 Aug 2025
End Indigenous policies which target and punish, rather than support — Djirra

A leading family violence organisation says new Closing the Gap data shows governments are delivering "more of the same," with little progress in protecting Indigenous women and families.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Aug 13, 2025
Victorian budget fails Aboriginal women and children, advocates say

The Victorian government has failed to prioritise Aboriginal women and children's safety in its budget, despite a $600 million surplus, a leading Indigenous family violence organisation says.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan May 22, 2025
Community-driven responses, not politics, needed to combat abuse

Child commissioners have rejected the federal opposition's call for a royal commission into sexual abuse in remote communities, instead urging solutions which are "proven to work".

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Mar 5, 2025
Victorian organisations reaffirm commitment to Treaty and Truth-telling on referendum anniversary

Leading Victorian Indigenous organisations have commemorated the anniversary of the Voice to Parliament referendum defeat, noting the outcome remains "very fresh and raw".

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Oct 14, 2024
"Promises will not save women’s lives, action will" - Djirra calls for funding certainty

Uncertainty about funding continues to put Aboriginal women at risk, a leading family violence organisation in Victoria says. Last month, the federal government announced a National Access to Justice...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Oct 9, 2024
Djirra CEO says data sovereignty, investment in ACCOs key to keeping First Nations women visible

The chief executive of Victorian Aboriginal family violence prevention service Djirra says investing in First Nations data sovereignty is key to keeping Aboriginal women visible.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Oct 4, 2024
Antoinette Braybrook awarded Honorary Doctorate from Deakin University

Leading human rights campaigner Antoinette Braybrook AM has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Deakin University. The chief executive of Aboriginal family violence prevention service Djirra and c...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 26, 2024
Aboriginal legal organisations welcome focus on gendered violence but call for funding certainty

Aboriginal family violence prevention service Djirra has welcomed the National Cabinet's acknowledgment that men's violence against women and children is a crisis which requires urgent national invest...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 6, 2024
"We will not be silent": Indigenous groups urge government to act on reports into violence against First Nations women

Aboriginal family violence prevention service Djirra says a lack of a response from the federal government to a series of reports on violence against Aboriginal women is "deafening".

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Aug 29, 2024
"Police culture must change" Djirra says in wake of report into murdered Indigenous women and children

Family violence prevention organisation Djirra says the landmark Senate report into missing and murdered Indigenous women and children is just the start, criticising a lack of action to rectify missin...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Aug 16, 2024
Breaking: "Little, if any, justice” for murdered Indigenous women and children, Senate inquiry finds

A landmark senate inquiry into missing and murdered First Nations women and children has called for a review of policing practices, as well as a First Nations role at the Domestic, Family and Sexual V...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Aug 15, 2024
Indigenous women urge change as report on disappearing First Nations women and children to be released

A Senate inquiry into missing Aboriginal women and children will be tabled in the senate on Thursday, after two years of traumatic testimony from experts, survivors, and countless people directly impa...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Aug 14, 2024
New data shows less First Nations people in Victoria spending time on remand since bail laws changed

Victoria's leading Indigenous legal organisation says new bail laws which came into effect in March this year are already having a positive impact.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Aug 8, 2024
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