Gender-based violence
Alternative labels
Violence against women
Gender based violence
VAWG
Violence against women and girls
Fact sheet
Lessons from implementing community-based primary prevention
This factsheet can be used by organisations and prevention practitioners who are seeking to fund, design or implement community-based primary prevention programs with the aim to address gender inequality and prevent violence against women, including sexual violence.
Briefing paper
Perspectives on prevention of gender-based violence: Identifying and disrupting pathways to violence
This paper focuses on how governments can support a greater understanding of perpetration and a strengthening and acceleration of current efforts to end men’s violence against women and children. It affirms the need to build on Australia’s current approaches to prevention and considers whether they need to be further adapted or refined.
Report
The Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission yearly report to Parliament
This is the Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission’s (the Commission’s) first report to Parliament on the progress of the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022–2032 (the National Plan). It finds that Governments have invested significant public funds to address domestic, family and sexual violence. Despite this, services and systems are...
Report
Missing and murdered First Nations women and children
This inquiry was established to investigate the higher than population average statistics of missing and murdered First Nations women and children in Australia. The final report of the inquiry, running since November 2021, makes ten recommendations.
Report
Young minds, old biases: the gender-based violence crisis
This report examines young people’s relationships, sex lives and experiences of disrespect and violence. The research reveals 90 per cent of young women in Australia view sexual assault as 'inevitable' and calls for greater sexual education in schools and universities.