Recognition of the harm family violence causes and of the need to invest in family violence reforms to assure the future wellbeing and prosperity of all Victorians, resulted in the establishment of this Royal Commission. The report's 227 recommendations are directed at seizing opportunities to transform responses to family violence and building the structures that...

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has defended Dyson Heydon's integrity and warned Labor MPs that it is a criminal offence to criticise a royal commissioner.

Judges take a risk when they step outside the courtroom to play the role of royal commissioner, writes Janet Ransley.

This submission is informed by several roundtables and community consultations on family violence and elder abuse ECCV has conducted since 2012. These consultations included representatives from ethno-specific family violence services, ethno-specific family and children services, ethno-specific aged care providers, ethno-specific senior groups and representatives from local government. ECCV conducted a roundtable on men’s health from...

In this submission seven clients of Salvation Army family violence services speak about their experiences of the family violence and justice systems and make recommendations to the Royal Commission into Family Violence.