Domestic Violence

Dozens of women share their experience of domestic violence through art.

A centuries-old mansion in Sydney became Julie's safe haven, following a series of difficult life circumstances. She is one of many women being assisted through meanwhile use housing.

A man who previously denied murdering his mother at their home in 2022, and even gave evidence in his own defence, has a last-minute change of heart and pleads guilty to murder.

Savannah Last has been a "karate kid" since she was two, but when she was attacked by a group of teenagers last year, she felt "hopeless".

The government's bill does not detail specific coercive control behaviours which it says is deliberate.

New laws designed to strengthen family violence protections in Tasmania include an extension to the statutory limitation period for coercive control offences, and a "nation-leading" levy which would be paid by offenders.

SA Police say they targeted 351 offenders as part of Operation Storm Days of Action, attending 443 addresses across the state in April.

As Brisbane's rental market hits record high prices and historic low vacancy rates, advocates are warning some domestic violence victims are having to choose between staying in an unsafe home and facing homelessness. 

Emergency services were called to a Lowood residence just before 11:10pm on Monday.

Police were called to an altercation at an Ipswich address on Sunday afternoon. 

A world-first research project is aiming to prevent family and intimate partner homicides with similar strategies to those being used to tackle terrorism and lone-actor attacks.

The defence team for Daniel Billings has submitted evidence from a forensic psychiatrist that found he was in an "abnormal state of mind" when he killed his former partner.

A video circulated across social media of a group of men laughing about how one of them would "beat the f***" out of a group of female content creators. 

When Claire arrived at a women's refuge in outer Sydney with her four-year-old daughter in tow, the child was "barely able to speak clearly". 

An Adelaide Hills man standing trial for the murder of his mother describes to the Supreme Court how he repeatedly struck her while he was panicked and "under attack" by "supernatural beings". Warning: This story contains images and details that may be distressing to some readers. 

The doors of 26 regional and remote courthouses in WA will shut for three months, leaving lawyers confused and concerned about consequences for domestic violence legal matters.

The 47-year-old's matter was in court charged with what police describe as the "particularly violent" murder of his wife and sons in Sydney's south-west.

A man, 47, has been charged after three people were found dead in a home in Sydney's south-west in what police allege is a domestic violence-related incident.

Tasmanian police say the deaths of a married couple in their sixties at a home in Campania, north of Hobart, are being treated as a murder-suicide.

An Illawarra woman stabbed multiple times by her mother-in-law has told a court she continues to be haunted by images of the roadside attack.