Despite substantial monetary and non-monetary investment in disaster recovery support services by community organisations, little is known about their processes and efforts. This study investigates how a community organisation in Queensland supports disaster-affected people in disaster recovery, providing deeper insights into the disaster recovery system, the organisation’s role in supporting recovery, and what recovery looks...

In response to the current housing crisis, governments across the country are implementing strategies to facilitate access to crisis accommodation for people. Increasingly, this crisis accommodation is provided in the form of motels. This paper seeks to summarise current evidence relating specifically to at-risk families residing in motels, finding that it is a suboptimal model.

The Domestic Violence Action Centre (DVAC) provides specialised, trauma-informed support to survivors of domestic, family, and sexual violence in South-East Queensland. The aim of this exploratory study was to understand survivors’ experiences engaging with DVAC’s services, the most useful aspects of DVAC support, and the major challenges that survivors face on their journeys to safety...

The aim of this research was to deepen our understanding of how gender-based violence functions as a mechanism of disadvantage in women’s lives. Through improving this understanding, the authors aim to help draw attention to key sites and opportunities for disrupting this process.

This paper presents a critical discourse analysis of Queensland’s Domestic and Family Violence (DFV) Strategy, and related policy documents, to examine whether public policy barriers exist in Queensland’s approach, and their potential to impact on policy outcomes.