This research project aimed to engage with First Nations communities and key stakeholders in Western Australia to gain an understanding of their experiences of family violence, document their observations and experiences of barriers and/or enablers to seeking assistance and support, and make recommendations for future culturally safe prevention and protection programs.

This report presents a literature review on coercive control in the context of domestic and family violence, with a particular focus on the understanding of, and responses to coercive control in the Australian context.

This study addresses a crucial gap in the evidence by focusing on children as victims of violence and abuse in their own right, concentrating on two facets of child abuse - exposure to IPV perpetrated against their female carers, and being the direct target of physical and/or emotional abuse.

This report discusses the complexities regarding domestic and family violence and mental health for Indigenous Australians, and highlights relevant policies and programs that demonstrate best practice.

This report examines ways in which family courts in different regions refer to “parental alienation” or similar pseudo-concepts in custody cases, ignoring histories of domestic violence, which may lead to the double victimization of victims of such violence.