This paper shares insights from the Paul Ramsay Foundation’s Open Grant Round for Specialist Domestic and Family Violence (DFV) Support. Innovation Unit is acting as a Learning Partner to this work, convening a group of 31 organisations who have been awarded grants as part of this program. This is the first of two papers from...

Victoria’s Reportable Conduct Scheme was introduced in July 2017. The primary objective of the scheme is to make organisations safer for children. This review examined the operation of the scheme since it came into effect to understand if it is working as intended.

In 2020, the Parliament of Victoria passed 33ZDA of the Supreme Court Act 1986 (Vic), empowering the Supreme Court of Victoria to make ‘group costs orders’ (GCOs). This paper seeks to assess the operation of Victoria’s GCO regime, and determine its appropriateness for the rest of the Commonwealth.

The National Homicide Monitoring Program is Australia’s only national data collection on homicide incidents, victims and offenders. This report describes the 218 homicide incidents recorded by Australian state and territory police between 1 July 2021 and 30 June 2022.

In this research paper, the Tasmania Law Reform Institute (TLRI) has reviewed and updated its 2007 report on human rights in Tasmania, upholding its key recommendations which included the need for a Charter of Rights. The TLRI makes 21 recommendations and urges Tasmania to become the fourth jurisdiction in Australia to adopt human rights legislation.