A submission to the Queensland Government Education, Arts and Communities Committee Inquiry into the Domestic and Family Violence Protection and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025. It outlines the deep concerns that the proposal for police to be able to issue an on-the-spot 12-month protection order will not, in many cases, provide additional protections for victim–survivors.

Nine years ago, the Royal Commission into Family Violence in Victoria tasked the Essential Services Commission with creating regulatory protections for utility customers affected by family violence. This paper outlines how an essential services safety by design framework can be applied to identify and mitigate safety risks related to domestic and financial abuse.

This summary report explores attitudes and expectations that could normalise the use of tech-based coercive control in relationships. It aims to understand the prevalence of certain harmful expectations and attitudes relating to tech-based surveillance and micro-management (often elements of tech-based coercive control) in intimate relationships.

This assessment tool supports service providers to screen, assess and respond to women who have experienced strangulation in the context of domestic, family and sexual violence. The tool is also designed to pick up smothering, suffocation and other forms of breath restriction.

This article presents the results of a survey into the prevalence in Australia of intimate partner violence (IPV), each IPV type and multitype IPV, overall and by gender, age group and sexual orientation. It finds improved prevention is needed in the areas of health care, welfare and justice and that a comprehensive national prevention policy...