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National Press Club Address to launch the Adolescent Man Box study

To mark the release of a landmark new study, Matt Tyler, Executive Director of the Men’s Project at Jesuit Social Services, and Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon, an international expert in domestic and family violence, addressed the National Press Club on 6 November 2025 to officially launch the Adolescent Man Box Report. Released today by Jesuit Social […]
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New Report Released: Family violence and women’s deaths by suicide : A Victorian study

Authored by: Stefani Vasil, Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Australian Catholic UniversityKate Fitz-Gibbon, Principal Consultant, SEQURE Consulting and Professor (Practice),Monash UniversityMarie Segrave, Professor of Criminology and ARC Future Fellow, Melbourne University This study explores the overlooked link between family violence and women’s deaths by suicide in Victoria. Reviewing coronial cases and expert interviews, it […]
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‘I was very fearful of my parents’: new research shows how parents can use coercive control on their children

Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Monash University In Australia, there is growing recognition that children and young people are not just witnesses to domestic, family and sexual violence, but victim-survivors in their own right. While we are getting better at understanding how coercive control operates in adult relationships – particularly where men use it against women – much […]
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‘He knows how to make sure that there is no evidence’: when your domestic violence abuser is a police officer

Ellen Reeves, University of Liverpool; Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Monash University; Sandra Walklate, University of Liverpool, and Silke Meyer, Griffith University People experiencing domestic violence are often urged to report their abuse to police. But what if your abuser is a police officer? Our new research, drawing on 17 interviews with victim-survivors from two studies and published […]
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Community attitudes to defences and sentences in cases of homicide and assault in Queensland

Over the past 10 years, criminal legislation in Australia has been reformed substantially, to ensure the law reflects evolving contemporary understandings of different forms of domestic and family violence, including non-physical forms of abuse. This includes recent reforms to introduce an offence of coercive control and affirmative consent legislation On 15 November 2023, the Queensland […]
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‘Violence at all levels’: UN report into the abuse of women and girls in sport is a wake-up call for Australia

Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Monash University This week the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls presented a report detailing the violence experienced by women and girls in sport globally. The report provides a global snapshot of the abuse women athletes experience, who is most likely to perpetrate the violence, and makes recommendations […]
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New data reveals rates of family violence among those who died by suicide

Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Monash University and Stefani Vasil, Australian Catholic University Domestic, family and sexual violence is rightly recognised as a national crisis. While the evidence base has built significantly in recent years, one important missing piece of the puzzle is how these forms of violence have impacted people who die by suicide across the country. […]
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Forthcoming book: Our National Crisis

I am extremely grateful to Monash University Publishing for the opportunity to write another book as part of their In the National Interest, building on my earlier contribution to this series. 📌 Violence against women and children is a national crisis. Nearly a decade has passed since family violence was first declared a national emergency […]
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