Domestic Violence

A mother who admitted to criminally neglecting three of her children, including her daughter who died when she was six-years-old, has been jailed for 17 years.

Teachers say misogynistic behaviour from young, male students has been getting worse. Now there's a guide to help.

As a Perth charity that provides food and financial assistance for people who are struggling loses its federal funding, there are fears it will have to turn more vulnerable people away.

A man who bludgeoned his partner to death with a towel rail and shower head in the bathroom of her home is jailed for a minimum of 21 years.

An inquest into the brutal 2021 murder of Kelly Wilkinson has been unexpectedly adjourned after fresh allegations about the Gold Coast mother-of-three's last interactions with police.

An inquest hears there were flaws in the police response before Gold Coast mother-of-three Kelly Wilkinson was murdered by her estranged husband in 2021. 

The Northern Territory government's plan to increase the mandatory minimum sentence for domestic violence murder has been panned by the prevention sector, as the NT attorney-general appears to backtrack on earlier remarks.

Queensland Police wrongly granted bail to a man charged with the rape of his estranged wife nine days before he brutally murdered her in 2021, a coronial inquest has heard.

Criminal proceedings against alleged triple murderer Julian Ingram grind to a halt as the five-and-a-half-week-long search for the 37-year-old continues. 

IBAC's public apology to Jana Katerinskaja is a sharp reminder of the struggle for accountability victims of police-perpetrated family violence too often face. 

A Tasmanian man who was found guilty of attempting to murder his ex-partner has been charged with attempting to make her recant her evidence against him.

West Australian police have charged a Kimberley man over alleged domestic violence offences stretching over two decades.

Experiences shared by athletes who participated in the ABC's Elite Athletes in Australian Women's Sport survey found many fear "nothing is going to happen" when speaking out on gender-based violence and harassment.

A man standing trial for domestic violence charges took an image of the victim while she was giving evidence and recorded the prosecutor inside the court building, a court has heard.

A man who stabbed a police officer with a pair of scissors during a domestic violence call-out in regional Queensland has had his jail sentence increased.

Experts say sexual violence against older women is "grossly underestimated" as victim-survivors face additional barriers to disclosing the abuse.

Police have arrested a man who allegedly attacked his partner and their five-year-old child with a metal scooter in Alice Springs.

Cameron William Leslie Clark, 33, remains in hospital after the alleged incident at Easts Leagues Club in the inner-city Brisbane suburb of Coorparoo.

As alleged triple-murderer Julian Ingram notches up three weeks on the run, residents in the small town are struggling to heal from shootings that rocked the community.

The 25-year-old mother was found unresponsive in a Southport apartment in 2021 and later died of her injuries in hospital.