This Bill Brief provides an overview of the Crimes Amendment (Non-fatal Strangulation) Bill 2023, which establishes two offences for non-fatal strangulation. It offers some background to the Bill’s introduction, considers the second reading speech delivered by the Minister and looks at the Bill in greater detail.

This report presents a statistical profile of combined orders of imprisonment with a community correction order imposed in the Magistrates’ Court and higher courts of Victoria between 2012 and 2020.

In preparing this report, researchers surveyed over 7,500 teenage children in England and Wales about their experiences of violence. The findings paint a highly nuanced picture of the prevalence and severity of violence in children’s lives today.

This report summarises a policy roundtable held with 15 experts, unpacking legislative and regulatory interventions around misinformation and disinformation in the context of the Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation Bill.

Many older Australians experience abuse, neglect or financial exploitation, usually at the hands of their adult children or other close relatives. This research report reveals the key reasons older people experiencing harm do not receive the support they so desperately need.