Domestic Violence
SNAICC - National Voice for our Children has called for an immediate investigation into the leaking of confidential information relating to child protection notifications involving Kumanjayi Little Ba...
SiS Tasmania has called on the Tasmanian Government to do more to support Aboriginal people exposed to family violence - particularly women, children and families.
The Western Australian Centre for Rural Health and Bundiyarra Aboriginal Community (Aboriginal Corporation) have signed a landmark partnership agreement to work together to prevent family violence by...
This report contains the name of an Indigenous person who has died. Mary Ann Miller gave birth to her seventh child at Perth's Fiona Stanley Hospital in March.
The South Australian Government's announcement of a new reporting pathway for domestic violence allegedly committed by police officers is being framed as a step forward.
The Queensland Indigenous Family Violence Legal Service (QIFVLS) will host its fourth national gathering in Magandjin / Brisbane in May, bringing together reform advocates from across Australia to adv...
Northern Territory Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says the case of a West Arnhem man who stabbed his wife three years ago but will be eligible for parole next week "exposes the gap between the gover...
A West Arnhem Land man who stabbed his wife through the heart on Darwin's Esplanade three years ago will be eligible for parole in two weeks after pleading guilty to her manslaughter.
Note: This report contains the name of an Indigenous person who has died. It also includes references to domestic violence and details readers may find distressing.
Domestic, family and sexual violence remains one of the most urgent challenges in Australia. Yet despite strong community leadership, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities too often lack t...
Indigenous leader Craig Rigney and New South Wales policy expert Jennifer Quincey have joined the board of Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety (ANROWS).
First Nations-led research out of the University of Melbourne will strive to form a better understanding of families impacted by family violence, supports available to them, and the intersection of ch...
In the face of a scourge of violence that sees First Nations women experience violence at overwhelmingly disproportionate rates, a new peak body, bringing together the perspectives of Aboriginal commu...