“HE went for my neck without even asking.” It was a phrase Collective Shout co-founder Melinda Tankard-Reist had heard from ...
QUEENSLAND is to make coercive control a criminal offence by the end of 2023 and examine how police respond to domestic ...
A CANDLE-LIGHTING vigil on the Sunshine Coast is now an established annual event that aims to unite the local community ...
BOTH the federal government and opposition have promised a commission to oversee the prevention of violence against women and children, ...
NEARLY three million adult Australians have experienced sexual violence during their lifetime, including sexual assault or child sexual abuse, yet ...
CHILLING threats to burn women alive are increasing in Queensland homes as violent perpetrators use media coverage of Queensland’s worst ...
DOMESTIC violence perpetrators are using technology to fake permission from ex-partners to manipulate court orders in moves that prove difficult ...
WOMEN fleeing domestic and family violence will be able to access $1500 for emergency spending – just one of the ...
As marches and candle-lighting vigils mark the start of Domestic and Family Violence Prevention month, new research has revealed why ...
SUNSHINE Coast residents will remember victims and survivors of domestic and family violence with a march and candle-lighting vigil at ...
New release: Brisbane Catholic author Michaela Daphne launched Verja, the second book in her fantasy thriller series, on December 15. HEALING ...
Shocking developments: “Because people are isolated more it’s a perfect storm for people who already have control ...
Tragedy: Brisbane’s Hannah Clarke and her three young children were murdered on a street in Camp Hill ...
Concerns: “The risk that social isolation with the current pandemic raises is that domestic violence often happens in silence.” SOCIAL ...
Time to act: “A kind of domestic hostage-taking in which the victim has no outside to escape to, because the ...
All that matters: “It was his family. He knew this was what mattered to him and he was losing everything ...
Trouble at home: Domestic violence is not just about physical violence. THE first phone call to police came five months ...
Shocking acts: “There is much more of a control aspect to strangulation than there is to something like a perpetrator ...
Funding promises: “Dealing with violence is hard enough without the real fear that every other part of your life will ...
Hardship: “We see women who struggle to be optimistic in any part of their lives, particularly ...
Shocking violence: “There needs to be a wider education on these signs to look for with ...
Offering hope: “Young minds can find ways to be very expressive, particularly after trauma, but not ...
Abusive: “The use of technology by abusive partners has added more stress for women who are ...
It must stop: “There are so many stories to be told but the common point is ...
In support: Sunshine Coast residents will march from the HMAS Brisbane Memorial at 5pm and finish ...
