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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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“You can get failed by systems”: We say we care about victim-survivors of violence and yet we jail them as kids

Along with Matt Tyler, Executive Director of The Men’s Project at Jesuit Social Services, Principal Consultant Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon co-authored an op-ed for ABC. There is a contradiction at the heart of Australian government policy that is directly harming our most vulnerable children and young people.  Federal and state governments across the country are committed […]
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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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We can’t solve family violence until we include violence between siblings in the conversation

Hayley Boxall, Australian National University; Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Monash University, and Silke Meyer, Griffith University Domestic and family violence (DFV) has received increasing attention in recent years. It is most commonly associated with intimate partner violence between current and former partners, followed by abuse perpetrated against children by their parents and carers. But what about sibling […]
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New research: Young people’s experiences and use of violence in the home

Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon has co-authored an article published this week in Child Protection and Practice with Professor Silke Meyer (Griffith University) and María Atiénzar-Prieto. Drawing on their ANROWS funded survey of over 5,000 young people in Australia, the article examines children’s experiences of family violence and the role of different types of child maltreatment on […]
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New research released on engagement in perpetrator intervention programs

This week Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon, in her capacity as a Professor at Monash University, has released the findings from Australia’s largest study of men’s engagement with behaviour change programs. This research found the current approach to working with men who use violence is missing opportunities to more effectively engage men in behaviour change, to keep […]
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Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon leads new research on intimate femicide perpetrator risks and points of intervention

This week, in her capacity as a Professor (Practice) at Monash University, Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon and colleagues have released a new report, Securing Women’s Lives. The report presents the findings from their analysis of 235 sentencing judgments in cases of male perpetrator intimate partner femicide. The study examined risk and system interactions prior to the intimate […]
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Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon leads new research on domestic violence disclosure schemes.

In her capacity as a Professor (Practice) with Monash University, Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon has released a new report examining the merits and limits of domestic violence disclosure schemes in Australia and New Zealand. This Final Report is co-authored with Professor Sandra Walklate and Dr Ellen Reeves from University of Liverpool (UK). Domestic violence disclosure schemes […]
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