This report provides a detailed analysis of data about violence in the community and in families from the Australian Bureau of Statistics', Personal Safety Survey of 2005 and the Women's Safety Survey from 2006.

The Advocacy Information Service has produced a framework to address violence, called A framework for influencing change – responding to violence against women with disabilities, 2007-2009 (PDF 173KB) The Framework outlines 12 key strategies to guide the advocacy work of the VWDN Advocacy Information Service, and targets family violence and sexual assault as priority areas...

This paper provides a review of contemporary research on the sexual assault of sex workers in Australia, focussing predominantly on the safety of sex workers in their work contexts.

This publication summarises the key findings of the Violence Against Women Community Attitudes Project supported by the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) in 2006.

This study is the first extensive analysis of police investigations into rape offences in Victoria in more than a decade and was undertaken to address some of the gaps in knowledge identified by the Victorian Law Reform Commission.