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 in 2015, and yet communities continue to take to the streets to demand greater leadership and action. An upscaling of commitment, funding and action commensurate with the scale of the problem is desperately needed.

📌 In Our National Crisis, I examine why addressing domestic, family and sexual violence requires a national effort across the full spectrum of prevention, early intervention, response, and recovery and healing. Tinkering with any one part of the system will not deliver the transformative outcomes so critically needed to improve safety for the countless women and children impacted by violence.

📌 In this book I stress why we cannot overlook the needs of children and young people as victim-survivors in their own right. Children have repeatedly fallen off national and state-based policy agendas relating to domestic, family and sexual violence.

Acts of male violence are, but should not be, the everyday experiences of all too many women and children in Australia. But they are inherently preventable, and with that comes the actionable hope for a future free from all forms of violence against women and children. I hope this book will be a further call to action – change is so urgently needed.

👉 Further details about this book, which will be released in mid-October 2024, are available here: https://publishing.monash.edu/product/our-national-crisis/