Fortnightly round up

Fortnightly Round Up

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14 April 2026 Bruce Lehrmann loses last-ditch legal effort to appeal defamation case against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson, reports The Guardian. Community leadership will make our communities safer, reports National Indigenous Times.Commission for Indigenous children gains independent powers, as new laws pass parliament, reports National Indigenous Television (NITV).
10 Mar 2026 Aboriginal community consultations held as NSW conducts review of Working with Children Check, reports National Indigenous Times. Federal funding pulled from WA charity helping people struggling with cost of living, leaving futures uncertain, reports ABC.She tried to leave her abusive partner. It cost Sophia her children, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.
24 Feb 2026 Coercive control remains misunderstood as authorities struggle to prosecute offenders, reports 7News.
Big tech fails victim-survivors as abusers monitor their lives and curtail their freedom, reports Crikey.The killing of Australian women is a national crisis. The answers are staring us in the face, reports Mamamia.
10 Feb 2026 First national plan to address violence against Indigenous women and children, reports ABC.
UN condemns Australia over rising remand numbers and the jailing of ten-year-olds, reports National Indigenous Times.First national plan to address violence against Indigenous women and children, reports ABC.
27 Jan 2026 We don’t need another Royal Commission. We need political courage to act, reports Women's Agenda.
Lake Cargelligo shootings were over in minutes but the effects will echo through generations in a small NSW town, reports The Guardian.Police charge 80-year-old man with murdering 77-year-old woman at Wollert, reports ABC.
16 Dec 2025 Domestic violence royal commission prompts $674 million response, reports ABC
Aunt of woman killed in domestic violence calls for action at '16 Days in WA' event, reports National Indigenous Times.Statistically, it's impossible to predict domestic violence homicide. That doesn't mean we should give up, reports ABC.
2 Dec 2025 'Family law system not safe for Indigenous women: study', reports The Canberra Times.
'74 women killed in past year. Sussan Ley asks, ‘how do we maintain the rage’', reports Women's Agenda.The Guardian reports 'Victim blaming comments after Hannah Clarke murders were part of botched police media strategy'.
18 Nov 2025 A two-year Guardian investigation reveals new details about the critical final weeks of Hannah Clarke’s life, casting doubt on the coroner’s finding that nothing more could have been done to prevent her death.
Matt Tyler, Executive Director of the Men’s Project at Jesuit Social Services & Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Monash University, address the National Press Club of Australia to launch the landmark Adolescent Man Box Report.
4 Nov 2025  Commissioner recommends watchdog to steer government efforts against domestic, family and sexual violence; Inquiry launched into suicide related to domestic and sexual violence; Australia’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners.
21 Oct 2025  A thousand more women and children will be able to access safety planning and support for domestic violence with a key service set to expand to six new locations across NSW; Institute of Community Directors Australia reports Community sector has more political clout than it realises: pollster.
9 Oct 2025  Queensland has established the state's first sexual violence peak body, with a similar peak body for domestic and family violence to be "fast-tracked". Ballarat embarks on an Australian-first trial to combat gender-based violence" after deaths of three women last year. The ABC reports that the ACT will criminalise coercive control by mid-2026
"NSW Police can monitor phones of DV offenders under new protections for victim-survivors.
4 Sept 2025  New measures will be introduced to reform the special circumstances debt waiver which will give Services Australia extended powers to waive social security debts that have been incurred as a result of domestic and family violence. Husic rebukes PM’s assertion ‘good people’ went to March for Australia rallies as Nampijinpa Price walks back immigration claim. A neo-Nazi group has violently assaulted people at a First Nations protest site.
21 Aug 2025  Advocates and people with lived experience have welcomed the findings of South Australia's Royal Commission into Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence.Violence survivors in SA who 'generously shared stories' hope to be heard in royal commission findings. When Alice reported her husband to SA police, they said ‘people fight’. But it was far more than fighting.
8 Aug 2025  Domestic violence prevention advocates have described the NT government's criticism of a landmark coronial report into the deaths of four Indigenous women as hurtful, disappointing and distressing. The NT government's response to a coroner's report on the deaths of four Aboriginal women fails to address "critical gaps" in combating domestic violence, a coalition of community services says. The federal government is being urged to change the law to give the ATO the ability to waive tax debts in situations of financial abuse.

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