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Violence against women and children affects everybody. It impacts on the health, wellbeing and safety of a significant proportion of Australians throughout all states and territories and places an enormous burden on the nation’s economy across family and community services, health and hospitals, income-support and criminal justice systems.

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News and events

ANROWS hosts events as part of its knowledge transfer and exchange work, including public lectures, workshops and research launches. Details of upcoming ANROWS activities and news are available from the list on the right.

ANROWS

About ANROWS

ANROWS was established by the Commonwealth and all state and territory governments of Australia to produce, disseminate and assist in applying evidence for policy and practice addressing violence against women and children.

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Resources

To support the take-up of evidence, ANROWS offers a range of resources developed from research to support practitioners and policy-makers in delivering evidence-based interventions.


Resources

As part of ANROWS’s mission to deliver relevant research evidence on violence against women, below is a collection of resources created by ANROWS.

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Submission

Inquiry into family violence orders

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Submission

Inquiry into the Crimes Amendment (Strengthening the Criminal Justice Response to Sexual Violence) Bill 2024 (Cth): Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee

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Submission

Inquiry into justice responses to sexual violence: Australian Law Reform Commission

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Guidelines

The Australian National Research Agenda to End Violence against Women and Children 2023–2028: Practice Leader’s Guide

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Guidelines

The Australian National Research Agenda to End Violence against Women and Children 2023–2028: Policymaker’s Guide

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Fact Sheet

Lessons from implementing community-based primary prevention: An evaluation of White Ribbon Australia’s “Engaging communities in sexual violence primary prevention” project

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Research summary

Migrant and refugee women: A national study of experiences of, understandings of and responses to sexual harassment in the workplace

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Fact Sheet

Tips for reporting findings from Australia’s first national report on filicides in the context of domestic and family violence

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Fact Sheet

“Who is going to be that voice?” What we know about parents killing their children in the context of domestic and family violence

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Research summary

Quick Guide to the 2021 NCAS findings for people born in countries where the main language is not English

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Submission

Inquiry into capturing data on family violence perpetrators in Victoria: Legislative Assembly Legal and Social Issues Committee

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Research summary

“Just another day in retail”: Understanding and addressing workplace sexual harassment in the Australian retail industry

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Fact Sheet

Evaluation of the Respect@Work Council: Key findings

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Guidelines

The Australian National Research Agenda to End Violence against Women and Children (ANRA) 2023–2028

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Submission

Current and emerging threats to trans and gender diverse human rights: Australian Human Rights Commission

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Research summary

Workplace technology-facilitated sexual harassment: Perpetration, responses and prevention

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Fact Sheet

Perpetration of workplace technology-facilitated sexual harassment

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Research summary

New study uses NSW Human Services Dataset to analyse child protection involvement for families experiencing domestic and family violence, alcohol and other drug issues and mental health issues

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Research summary

What works? A qualitative exploration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander healing programs that respond to family violence

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Literature review

Missing, murdered and incarcerated Indigenous women in Australia: A literature review

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Submission

Review of criminal justice responses to sexual offending: Office of the Commissioner for Victims of Crime (WA)

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Submission

Review of sexual consent laws in South Australia: Attorney-General’s Department (SA)

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Fact Sheet

In their words: Stakeholder kit for practitioners – findings from the Voices Project

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Submission

Designing the Wiyi Yani U Thangani Framework for Action and establishment of a First Nations Gender Justice Institute

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Submission

Criminalising coercive control: Attorney-General’s Department (SA)

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Research summary

Quick Guide to the 2021 NCAS findings for young Australians

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Fact Sheet

Moving forward: The 2021 National Community Attitudes towards Violence against Women Survey (NCAS), Findings for young Australians

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Infographic

Social media infographics: 2021 NCAS findings for young Australians

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Research summary

Towards meaningful engagement: Key findings for survivor co-production of public policy on gender-based violence

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Research summary

Summary of findings: A social network analysis and implementation study of an intervention designed to advance social and emotional learning and respectful relationships in secondary schools

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Submission

Review of criminal justice responses to sexual offending: Office of the Commissioner for Victims of Crime (WA)

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Submission

Department of Justice and Attorney-General, Queensland: Development of a Queensland domestic and family violence perpetrator strategy

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Submission

Northern Territory Department of the Attorney-General and Justice: Exposure Draft Justice Legislation Amendment (Domestic and Family Violence) Bill 2023

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Submission

Northern Territory Law Reform Committee: Inquiry into consent for sexual offences

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Fact Sheet

Migrant and refugee women in Australia: A study of sexual harassment in the workplace

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Guidelines

Yes – ANROWS position on the Voice

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Guidelines

Warawarni-gu Guma Statement

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Guidelines

Connecting the dots: A strengths-based practice framework for responding to the needs and priorities of children and young people with disability who experience domestic and family violence

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Submission

Department of Health, Victoria: Independent Review of Compulsory Treatment and Decision-Making Laws

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Submission

Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee: Family Law Amendment Bill 2023

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Submission

Queensland Department of Justice and Attorney-General: Civil surveillance reforms consultation

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Submission

Legal Affairs and Safety Committee (Qld): Response to the Domestic and Family Violence Protection (Combating Coercive Control) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2022

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Submission

Department of Justice and Attorney General (QLD): Feedback on the consultation draft of the Domestic and Family Violence Protection (Combating Coercive Control) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2022

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Fact Sheet

Three times more likely: Findings from the Personal Safety Survey and the National Community Attitudes towards Violence against Women Survey

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Fact Sheet

Have our attitudes and understanding improved since 2017? NCAS 2021 findings for Australian states and territories

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Fact Sheet

We’re all progressing together: NCAS findings for Australian states and territories

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Guidelines

ESTIE Practice Resource: Evidence based guidelines to support the implementation of the Safe & Together approach

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Guidelines

AVITH Collaborative Practice Framework

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Submission

Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee: Inquiry into current and proposed sexual consent laws in Australia

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Submission

Attorney-General’s Department: Review of the ban on direct cross-examination under the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth)

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Submission

Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade: Response to the Inquiry into the rights of women and children

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Submission

National Principles Consultation Team: Response to draft National Principles to Address Coercive Control

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Research summary

Quick Guide to the 2021 NCAS

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Submission

Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department: Exposure draft of the Family Law Amendment Bill 2023

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Special collection

Measuring research impact: A case study of the PATRICIA project on child protection policy, practice and outcomes

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Submission

NSW Department of Communities and Justice: Draft NSW Domestic and Family Violence Plan 2022–2027 and draft NSW Sexual Violence Plan 2022–2027

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Guidelines

Healing our children and young people: A framework to address the impacts of domestic and family violence

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Submission

Real Estate and Housing Policy Team (NSW): Response to the review of domestic violence rental laws

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Submission

Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability: Violence against and abuse of people with disability at home

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Submission

Inquiry into Workforce Australia Employment Services: ParentsNext

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Submission

Office for Women and Violence Prevention (Qld): Consultation for a new Queensland Women’s Strategy – Discussion paper

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Submission

New South Wales Women’s Economic Review: Women and children’s safety: The bedrock of economic opportunity

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Submission

Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee: Response to the Inquiry into missing and murdered First Nations women and children

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Submission

Senate Education and Employment Committees: Re: Fair Work Amendment (Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2022

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Submission

New South Wales Law Reform Commission: Re: Consent in relation to sexual offences (Consultation paper 21)

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Submission

Australian Government Department of Social Services: Successor plan for the National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009–2020

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Submission

Inquiry into Workforce Australia Employment Services

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Submission

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): Input for the Special Rapporteur VAWG report on violence against women and children in custody cases

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Submission

Submission: Independent Commission of Inquiry into Queensland Police Service responses to domestic and family violence (Qld)

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Guidelines

Recommendations: Overarching principles for responses across the service system

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Special collection

Economic security and intimate partner violence

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Fact Sheet

Adolescent family violence in Australia

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Submission

New South Wales Department of Communities and Justice: Response to the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Coercive Control) Bill 2022

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Fact Sheet

Connecting what matters: Children and young people with disability and their families share their views on how services can help when they experience domestic and family violence

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Infographic

A life course approach to determining the prevalence and impact of sexual violence in Australia: Findings from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health

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Fact Sheet

Technology-facilitated abuse: Self-reported perpetration by Australians aged 18+

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Fact Sheet

Technology-facilitated abuse: Victimisation experiences by Australians aged 18+

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Fact Sheet

Children and young people’s mental health and domestic and family violence: What’s the link?

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Special collection

On the agenda: 2022 ANROWS conference communique

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Submission

Submission: Review of the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012

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Fact Sheet

PRACTICE GUIDE: The child–parent psychotherapy model in an Australian setting

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Fact Sheet

Fact sheet: Updated facts about intimate partner homicide

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Fact Sheet

Fact sheets: Pathways to intimate partner homicide

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Submission

Submission: Improving the competency and accountability of family report writers

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Submission

Submission: Letter to NSW Audit Office review of police response to DFV

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Fact Sheet

Evidence overview: Economic insecurity and intimate partner violence in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Webinar

Webinar: Understanding economic and financial abuse

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Webinar

Webinar: “Chuck her on a lie detector”: Investigating Australians’ mistrust in women’s reports of sexual assault

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Fact Sheet

“Chuck her on a lie detector”: Investigating Australian’s mistrust in women’s reports of sexual assault – Key messages.

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Webinar

Webinar: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic and family violence

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Fact Sheet

At a glance: Respondents’ experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV) since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic

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Fact Sheet

Domestic violence among women from priority populations during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Fact Sheet

The impact of financial stress, time at home and social isolation on the likelihood of women experiencing physical and sexual forms of domestic violence during COVID-19

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Fact Sheet

Prevalence of domestic violence against women during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Webinar

Webinar: Systems, access, evidence: migrant and refugee women experiencing domestic and family violence

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Submission

Submission: SA Liquor and Gambling Commissioner

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Submission

Submission: Australian Curriculum Review

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Submission

Submission: Queensland Women’s Safety and Justice Taskforce

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Infographic

Best practice for working with culturally and linguistically diverse communities in addressing violence against women

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Fact Sheet

Accurate use of key statistics Word version

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Submission

Submission: Coercive control discussion paper

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Special collection

Interventions for perpetrators of domestic, family and sexual violence in Australia

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Webinar

Webinar: Safety in the Family Court

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Webinar

Webinar: Evaluation in the violence against women sector

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Submission

Submission: National Strategy to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse – Final Consultation Paper

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Submission

Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability

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Webinar

Webinar: Policy levers to address economic insecurity – Part 2

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Webinar

Mobilizing knowledge for wicked problems: Lessons learned from gender-based violence research

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Video

Identifying perpetrators of DV in LGBTQ relationships

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Video

Making DV services inclusive for LGBTQ people

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Video

Understanding the role of minority stress for LGBTQ people experiencing DV

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Video

Awareness and recognition of DV in LGBTQ relationships

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Video

Violence in LGBTQ relationships

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Submission

Response to the Joint Select Committee on Coercive Control discussion paper

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Submission

Supplementary questions on notice: Inquiry into the High Level of First Nations People in Custody and Oversight and Review of Deaths in Custody

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Webinar

Webinar: Violence against women and mental health

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Special collection

Defining and responding to coercive control: Policy brief

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Webinar

Webinar: Gambling harm and intimate partner violence

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Webinar

Webinar: Accurately identifying the person most in need of protection

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Guidelines

The dangerous combination of gambling and domestic and family violence against women: Practice guide for gambling counsellors, financial counsellors and domestic and family violence workers.

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Submission

Select Committee on the High Level of First Nations People in Custody and Oversight and Review of Deaths in Custody (NSW)

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Webinar

Webinar: Working with complexity

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Webinar

Webinar: Understanding the role of Law and Culture in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in responding to and preventing family violence

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Webinar

Webinar: Using the client-worker relationship to engage men who use violence

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Fact Sheet

Domestic and family violence and intimate partner violence in LGBTQ relationships—A discussion on strengthening practice: Webinar resources and questions

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Submission

Review of consent laws and the excuse of mistake of fact (QLD)

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Submission

Inquiry into family, domestic and sexual violence (CTH)

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Webinar

Webinar: Strengthening accountability across perpetrator intervention systems

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Special collection

Working across sectors to meet the needs of clients experiencing domestic and family violence

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Fact Sheet

Working with women who have experienced complex trauma in mental health and refugee services— A comparative discussion: Webinar resources and questions

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Webinar

Webinar: Invisible practices: Working with fathers who use violence

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Fact Sheet

Integrated justice responses: Webinar resources and questions

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Webinar

Webinar: Domestic and family violence and intimate partner violence in LGBTQ relationships – a discussion on strengthening practice

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Special collection

Violence against women and mental health

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Webinar

Webinar: Responding to sexual violence experienced among trans women of colour from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds in Australia

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Special collection

Women’s imprisonment and domestic, family and sexual violence

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Webinar

Webinar: A practice discussion on working with men who use violence in the justice system: an integrated response model

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Guidelines

Guidelines: The Evaluation guide: A guide for evaluating behaviour change programs for men who use domestic and family violence

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Workbook

Case study: Invisible practices: Working with fathers who use violence

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Webinar

Webinar: Working with women who have experienced complex trauma in mental health and refugee services – a comparative discussion

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Webinar

Webinar: Strengthening capacity for multicultural and settlement services to support women experiencing violence

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Webinar

Part 4 Webinar: Prevention of violence against women and safer pathways to services for migrant and refugee communities

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Webinar

Part 3 Webinar: Prevention of violence against women and safer pathways to services for migrant and refugee communities

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Webinar

Part 2 Webinar: Prevention of violence against women and safer pathways to services for migrant and refugee communities

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Guidelines

Visual resources: Crossing the line: Lived experience of sexual violence among trans women of colour from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds in Australia

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Webinar

Part 1 Webinar: Prevention of violence against women and safer pathways to services for migrant and refugee communities

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Webinar

Webinar: Enhancing practice when working with men from refugee backgrounds who use domestic and family violence

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Webinar

Webinar: The practice of partner contact and prioritising women’s safety in domestic violence perpetrator interventions

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Webinar

ANROWS & AHRC Webinar: Preventing and responding to sexual harassment in the workplace: a discussion

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Fact Sheet

CALD PAR Webinar resources and questions

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Webinar

Webinar: Sadie’s story: Helping women affected by domestic and family violence navigate a fragmented system

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Guidelines

Practice guide: Prioritising women’s safety in Australian perpetrator interventions

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Webinar

Safe for women? Preventing gender-based violence in mental health inpatient units

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Fact Sheet

Circles of Support and Accountability

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Guidelines

The “REAL” Transformation Model

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Webinar

How can we enhance routine screening?: Strengthening identification and response to domestic violence in the antenatal care setting

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Poster

Poster: How intimate partner violence affects quality of life

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Submission

Homicide consultation paper (NSW)

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Submission

Joint Select Committee on Australia’s Family Law System

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Webinar

Punishment, Protection or Prevention? The Role of The Law in Domestic and Family Violence

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Submission

Submission to the examination of the Criminal Code (Child Sexual Offences Reform) & Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2019. Qld

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Submission

Draft proposal to review consent in relation to sexual offences (NSW)

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Podcast

Podcast: Intergenerational trauma & family violence in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander communities

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Podcast

Podcast: How do we engage men who use violence?

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Podcast

Podcast: Recounting women

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Fact Sheet

Domestic and family violence lethality: The facts about intimate partner homicide

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Podcast

Link

Podcast: Transforming legal understandings of intimate partner violence

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Video

Link

Seminar: Transforming legal understandings of intimate partner violence

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Special collection

Domestic and family violence, housing insecurity and homelessness: Research synthesis 2nd Ed.

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Special collection

Intimate partner sexual violence: Research synthesis

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Special collection

Preventing domestic and family violence: Action research reports from five Australian local government councils

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Guidelines

R4Respect. Respectful Relationships Peer Education Guide

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Submission

Review of sentencing for murder and manslaughter

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Fact Sheet

Summary of the Evidence: Paid domestic and family violence (DFV) leave

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Submission

Submission to consent in relation to sexual offences inquiry

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Fact Sheet

Accurate use of key statistics

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Fact Sheet

Fast Facts: Impacts of Family, Domestic & Sexual Violence

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Fact Sheet

Fact sheet: Personal safety survey 2016

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Infographic

Infographics: The burden of disease of intimate partner violence

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Webinar

Webinar: Violence against women and children – what the data can tell us

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Guidelines

Establishing the connection: Guidelines for practitioners and clinicians in the sexual assault and alcohol and other drug sectors

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Guidelines

Advocacy with and for Aboriginal women experiencing domestic and family violence: a practice guide

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Fact Sheet

Fast Facts: Indigenous family violence

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Guidelines

Practice guide: Safety planning in crisis situations with and for Aboriginal women experiencing domestic and family violence

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Infographic

Infographics: The Burden of Disease between Indigenous and non-Indigenous women

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Guidelines

Practice guide: Outreach with and for Aboriginal women experiencing domestic and family violence

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Fact Sheet

ASPIRE: Financial abuse and immigrant women

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Fact Sheet

ASPIRE: Communication barriers and family violence

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Fact Sheet

ASPIRE: Interpreters and family violence

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Fact Sheet

ASPIRE: Immigration, visas and family violence

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Link

ASPIRE: Photo-voice

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Guidelines

Cultural Safety Principles and Guidelines

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Fact Sheet

Fact sheet: Separation, inter-parental conflict, and family and domestic violence: Impact and support needs

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Fact Sheet

The PATRICIA Project: Summary of the scoping review

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Fact Sheet

The PATRICIA Project: Summary of the Safe and Together case reading

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Fact Sheet

The PATRICIA Project: Summary of the Pathways component

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Workbook

PATRICIA Workshop handout

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Podcast

Podcast: Family violence: Responding to the next generation Melbourne Forum

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Podcast

Podcast: Family violence: Responding to the next generation Perth Forum

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Guidelines

A guide to evaluating interventions related to violence against women

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Webinar

Webinar: Parenting in contexts of family violence and inter-parental conflict

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Guidelines

Practice guide: Invisible Practices – Working with fathers who use violence

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Workbook

Link

Women, Disability and Violence: Knowledge Translation and Exchange Workshop

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Workbook

Link

Facilitator Workbook: Women, Disability and Violence: Knowledge Translation and Exchange Workshop

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Workbook

Link

Participant Workbook: Women, Disability and Violence: Knowledge Translation and Exchange Workshop

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Poster

Interactive poster: Whatever It Takes – One size does not fit all

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Webinar

Webinar: AIHW Burden of Disease IPV

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Fact Sheet

Fact sheet: Using a trauma and violence informed framework in practice

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Video

WITH study digital stories

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Infographic

Poster

Poster: Examining the power of the eMR to share interpersonal violence, abuse and neglect concerns

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Fact Sheet

Issues paper: Supporting women to find and keep jobs following domestic violence

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Fact Sheet

Issues paper: Responding to economic abuse

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Fact Sheet

Issues paper: Researching the economic dimensions of domestic and family violence: Information gaps and data strategies

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Video

Link

Let’s change the story: Violence against women in Australia

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Fact Sheet

Seeking help for domestic and family violence: Exploring regional, rural, and remote women’s coping experiences

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Special collection

Perpetrators of domestic, family and sexual violence: Special collection – June 2019 (updated June 2020)

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Special collection

Resources to address violence against women in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, July 2018

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Guidelines

National Risk Assessment Principles for domestic and family violence: Quick reference guide for practitioners

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Guidelines

National Risk Assessment Principles for domestic and family violence: Companion resource. A summary of the evidence-base supporting the development and implementation of the National Risk Assessment Principles for domestic and family violence

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Guidelines

National Risk Assessment Principles for domestic and family violence

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Fact Sheet

Research summary: The impacts of domestic and family violence on children (2nd ed.)

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Video

inConversation with Professor Liz Kelly CBE and Dr Anastasia Powell

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Video

ANROWS inConversation with Professor Leigh Goodmark and Professor Rosalind Croucher AM

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Video

Public lecture by Professor Liz Kelly CBE: Re-visiting the continuum of sexual violence in the 21st century

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Fact Sheet

The international drive to achieve gender equality and the elimination of gender-based violence against women and girls

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Video

ANROWS Public Lecture with Professor Leigh Goodmark: A troubled marriage: Domestic violence and the legal system. August 2015

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Fact Sheet

ANROWS’s approach to knowledge translation and exchange: What is it and how do we do it?

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Fact Sheet

Time for renewed national commitment to action

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Submission

Submission on review of the sexual consent provisions in the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW)

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Special collection

Building Safe Communities for Women and their Children: A compendium of stories from the field

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Guidelines

Evidence to action and local action as evidence: Findings from the Building Safe Communities for Women and their Children Action Research Support Initiative

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Guidelines

Key steps in evaluating interventions related to violence against women

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