Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon co-authors article on why children as victim-survivors in their own right must be considered in Australia’s response to the crisis of men’s violence.

In recent weeks children as victim-survivors in their own right have been invisible in political announcements and actions. Their experiences silenced and ignored. Co-authoring an article for Women’s Agenda, Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon explains that for too long system responses to domestic and family violence in Australia have seen children only as extensions of their primary carer. Repeatedly governments have failed to recognise and adequately respond to the unique safety, support and recovery needs of the individual child.

Ending gender-based violence in one generation necessitates a transformational focus on delivering improved outcomes for the next generation.

Read the Women’s Agenda article here: https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/the-government-wants-to-end-gender-based-violence-in-one-generation-but-they-have-forgotten-about-children/

This article was co-authord by Kate with leading advocates, practitioners and academics: Conor Pall is Deputy Chair of the Victorian Victim-Survivors Advisory Council; Shorna Moore is a lawyer and Head of Policy, Advocacy and Government Relations with Melbourne City Mission; Elena Campbell is Associate Director, Centre for Innovative Justice at RMIT; and Silke Meyer is a Professor in the School of Health Sciences and Social Work at Griffith University.