- Piecemeal responses to domestic violence »
- Family, domestic and sexual violence in Australia: continuing the national story 2019 »
- Victoria’s commitment to a non-fatal strangulation offence will make a difference to vulnerable women »
- The long history of gender violence in Australia, and why it matters today »
- Why do men kill their families? Here’s what the research says »
- When men were being killed on the street, we took action. So why is domestic violence different? »
- The Senate inquiry into family violence has closed, missing an important opportunity »
- We analysed almost 500,000 police reports of domestic violence. Mental health was an issue »
- How much can the budget’s $1.1 billion for women’s safety really achieve? Two experts give their verdict »
- One third of migrant and refugee women experience domestic violence, major survey reveals »
- ‘The dial hasn’t shifted’: Concrete action needed after 12 years of plans to stop family violence »
- LGBTQ+ people are being ignored in the national discussion on family and sexual violence »
- Australia has been forced to face the truth about the gender-based violence lurking behind its ‘safe and happy’ facade »
- Male violence against women is about so much more than toxic masculinity »
- ‘Vital piece of evidence’ for 10-year domestic violence plan finally sees the light of day after Morrison government delay »
- Unintended, but not unanticipated: coercive control laws will disadvantage First Nations women »
- Intimate partner violence impacts one third of Australian 18 to 19-year-olds. How can we change that?
- 49 women have been killed in Australia so far in 2023 as a result of violence. Are we actually making any progress?
- Legal options for domestic violence victims »
‘A very broken system’: why are Queensland police still getting domestic violence cases so wrong?
Ben Smee reports in The Guardian (8.5.21) on further troubling cases of domestic violence in Queensland, with survivors and families saying more resources and culture change are needed in policing these crimes.
‘Thumbing through Queensland coroner’s reports from the past decade, there are plenty of blunt warnings to police that highlight problematic responses to domestic violence victims. They include the inquest into the 2011 killings of Antony Way, Tania Simpson and her daughter Kyla, which detailed how a police officer did not consider the killer’s prior controlling behaviour to be domestic violence.
‘The inquest into the death of Mr M – killed by his partner’s ex – described the police response as “inadequate” and beset by “inaction and tardiness”. The report on the death of Indigenous woman Elsie Robertson in 2013 outlined what police themselves concluded was “an unreasonable delay” of more than an hour between a call for assistance and officers attending the address in Cairns.
‘A common thread in many of these reports is the response by police to scrutiny and outright criticism about their responses to domestic violence. They have repeatedly committed to reform, to better educate officers and to review policies and procedures.’
- ‘A very broken system’: why are Queensland police still getting domestic violence cases so wrong? »
- QLD police will use AI to ‘predict’ domestic violence before it happens. Beware the unintended consequences »
- Queensland police blocked research into domestic violence cases and attitudes of officers »
- Queensland police misidentified women murdered by husbands as perpetrators of domestic violence »
- Kelly Wilkinson sought help from the police ‘almost every day’ after her first domestic violence complaint. So what went wrong? »
- Services to be cut and ‘lives lost’ in Queensland’s looming domestic violence funding ‘catastrophe’, advocates warn »
- Domestic violence specialists to be embedded in Queensland police stations »
- Coronavirus isolation prompts rise in domestic violence trauma cases in Queensland emergency departments, Health Minister warns »
- Coercive control is a key part of domestic violence. So why isn’t it a crime across Australia? »
- Domestic violence offenders, prior offending and reoffending in Australia »
- More help required: the crisis in family violence during the coronavirus pandemic »
- Australia’s number-one law and order issue »
- Survivors angry about secrecy around reports on violence against women »
- The Hannah Clarke inquest reveals, yet again, significant system failures. Here’s what’s urgently needed for women’s safety »
- ‘All these people with lived experience are not being heard’: what family violence survivors want policy makers to know »
- Implementing the ‘Not Now, Not Ever’ report on domestic violence in Queensland »
- Domestic violence orders in Queensland boosted, protective powers increased »