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The need for prevention and early intervention to address youth crime

As someone who researches, writes, and advocates in this space, I cannot ignore how far these reforms drift from what we know works, what fairness demands, and what Australia has committed to uphold under international law. Australia is a signatory to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. That requires more than symbolic […]

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 […]

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 […]

Australia has ministers for seniors and youth. So why not a minister for children?

Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Monash University Child safety and wellbeing is never far from the headlines, and no more so than recently, with shocking allegations of child sexual abuse in childcare centres. These revelations have sparked much-needed national conversations about how we can better protect children. They have also exposed how fragmented and reactive Australia’s approach to […]

“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 […]

‘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 […]

Book launch: The Kids Who Have Been Through This – stories from children who have experienced homelessness and domestic violence

I recently had the tremendous honour of being part of the launch of ‘The Kids Who Have Been Through This – stories from children who have experienced homelessness and domestic violence’ The Together 4 Kids (T4K) Book Club brought together children and parents of toddlers and babies to write and illustrate a children’s story about their […]

‘No one knew what was happening’: new research shows how domestic violence harms young people’s schooling

Steven Roberts, Monash University; Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Monash University, and Rebecca Stewart, Monash University Every school around Australia is almost certain to have students who are victim-survivors of family and domestic violence. The 2023 Australian Child Maltreatment Study found neglect and physical, sexual and emotional abuse of children is widespread. Among Australians aged 16–65 years, 32% […]

The major parties have announced their plans to address domestic and family violence. How do they stack up?

Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Monash University and Hayley Boxall, Australian National University In the past week, at least seven women have been killed in Australia, allegedly by men. These deaths have occurred in different contexts – across state borders, communities and relationships. But are united by one truth: they are part of the ongoing national crisis of […]

Australia had a national reckoning over domestic violence, but where’s the focus this election?

Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Monash University and Hayley Boxall, Australian National University For most of this federal election campaign, politicians have said very little about violence against women and children. Now in the fourth week of the five-week campaign, Labor has released its “commitment to women” announcement. The Coalition has also flagged it will have something to […]

Victorian Perpetrator Inquiry Report released

The Victorian Parliament Legislative Assembly Legal and Social Issues Committee has released its final report: “Building the evidence base: Inquiry into capturing data on people using family violence in Victoria.” 💬 I was grateful for the opportunity to give evidence during the public hearings for this important inquiry in my capacity as Chair of Respect Victoria. […]

9 years on … the same reforms remain desperately needed for children as victim-survivors of family violence in their own right.

9 years ago today Dr Wendy O’Brien and I wrote an article for The Conversation highlighting the Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence finding that children are the ‘silent victims’ of family violence. 📚 At the time we overviewed the Royal Commission’s findings that as a legacy of limited or incomplete data-gathering, siloed responses, and […]

Response to the March 2025 Federal Budget

With Safe and Equal CEO Tania Farha and No to Violence CEO Phillip Ripper, Principal Consultant Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon spoke with News.com.au reporter Natalie Brown following last night’s federal budget. Frontline domestic, family and sexual violence services across Australia have repeatedly told us they are stretched beyond capacity. On the ground, this means turning away […]

‘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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The need for prevention and early intervention to address youth crime

National Press Club Address to launch the Adolescent Man Box study

New Report Released: Family violence and women’s deaths by suicide : A Victorian study