Intimate partner homicide (IPH) is one of the most common forms of homicide in Australia. Considerable recent public debate has focused on the issue yet relatively few programs have been designed to prevent it. This paper explores whether and how a multi-agency model designed to intervene with fixated individual could be applied to the problem.

Ensuring the wellbeing and safety of children is paramount. Yet, filicide - the killing of one’s own child, is the second most common type of domestic homicide in Australia after intimate partner homicide. This report presents the first national figures for filicides that have occurred in Australia in the context of domestic and family violence.

The Office of the Commissioner for Victims of Crime has conducted extensive community consultations to understand coercive control in the Western Australian context. The resulting report recommends a suite of systemic and legislative reforms to recognise and respond to patterns of family and domestic violence behaviours.

In Australia and comparable international jurisdictions, a range of provisions, measures, laws and programs are designed to assess and address the risk of intimate partner violence. This project sought to contribute new evidence to inform the further development of whole-of-systems preventive approaches to repeat violence and intimate femicide.

Universal screening for domestic violence, and response, is recommended for women in priority populations and has been implemented in health services across diverse jurisdictions. However, this is untested with refugee women accessing settlement services. The Safety and Health after Arrival (SAHAR) study introduced and evaluated a culturally tailored DV identification and response strategy. The report...