Family law has been overhauled. With the new changes about to kick in, how will they affect children? theconversation.com/family-law-has… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

If you missed last week's TASA Thursdays event with fellow member Stefani Vasil
presenting on 'Migration, precarity and family violence: Examining women's experiences in Australia', you can catch up with the recording via: buff.ly/4d3OJIL

Join us at 'Ending Coercive Control, Family & Domestic Violence Against Women' for crucial discussions on the national crisis of violence against women. inTouch's Principal Lawyer, Ajsela Siskovic will discuss impacts on refugee & migrant women. Register: go.the-hatchery.co/speaker8422

1st paper from ARC study on #sexualviolence & #IPV against international students in Aust! We explored helpseeking experiences of 30 #internationalstudents . Many structural barriers but also resilience & agency. doi.org/10.1177/107780… MCWH Helen Forbes-Mewett Ly Tran

Thrilled to have this book chapter published in library.oapen.org/bitstream/hand… with Professor Margaret Abraham focusing on gender-based and intersectional violence in the US and Australia.

Devastated to miss seeing huskies who visited Monash yesterday, but shout out to my mum for gifting me today’s selection of socks when she visited

To stop women's deaths from men’s violence, we need a concerted & sustained focus on young men & boys.

Let us be very clear - this focus should not come at a cost to victim-survivors. There is an urgent need to fully fund the scale of crisis responses needed to secure women's…

Calling abusers 'evil' or 'monsters' obscures the fact that they are also intimate partners that we've loved, they're our family, we grew up with them, went to school with them as kids. Read on 🔽 and #changethestory
#DomesticViolence
#domesticabuseawareness

A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. “We were surprised by how brazenly the male researchers described their priorities, for example that they actively didn’t respond to emails”

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A much needed book out by an incredible scholar Dr. Nicole Bedera - discussions of institutional failings in academia re preventing and addressing #SexualViolence are long overdue, and unacceptable

It is a betrayal and this is key reading

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Dr Kathryn Benier, Monash Criminology, writes about their research with Associate Professor Angela Higginson, QUT, debunking the perceived associations between ethnicity and youth gangs.
Read more at #MonashLens : lens.monash.edu/@politics-soci…

Why do we still fail to blame perpetrators? ⚖️

This analysis of 94 universities' websites shows how higher education student advice reinforces a narrative of #VictimBlaming 🤳

But what can universities do differently? Read now to learn more:
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Apple must face lawsuit that says AirTags are used by stalkers to track victims smh.com.au/world/north-am…

Spyware can be weaponised in the context of #DFV #DomesticViolence #FamilyViolence , as vendors well know. Thx Patrick Begley for highlighting this issue & calls to address the sale, promotion and use of this technology
smh.com.au/national/keep-…
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Announcing our next two guests for 'From Awareness to Action: How Can Employers Aid in Breaking the Cycle of Family Violence?' Joining us will be Vivienne Nguyen- @multiculturevic Chair & Marie Segrave - ARC Future Fellow/University of Melbourne Professor of Criminology. tinyurl.com/nkjntujc

We're hiring!

Do you want to contribute to building a more gender equitable society?

We have a number of positions listed across the organisation.

To see all of our current vacancies, visit womenslegal.org.au/careers

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