One in three Australian women have experienced physical violence since the age of 15 and almost one in five have experienced sexual violence. A study of Victorian women demonstrated that domestic violence is the leading preventable contributor to death, disability and illness in women aged between 15 and 44, and is responsible for more of...

Apart from being perennially underfunded in a country recording rapid population growth, public housing policy is rarely innovative or exciting interest. This paper has one basic premise: that investment in affordable housing for low-income women provides both micro and macro economic benefits for cities and communities.

Single, older women in Australia have emerged as a group vulnerable to housing insecurity and as being in danger of homelessness in their old age. Wage inequality and interrupted working lives due to childcare responsibilities are contributing factors and have meant that women, especially single women, have a decreased capacity to acquire housing equity or...

This report from Wesley Mission examined homelessness in Australia.