law reform

01/02/2025 | Kate Fitz-Gibbon | Femicide, Femicide law, Homicide law reform, Policy, Violence against women

Argentina’s president is vowing to repeal ‘woke’ femicide law. It could have ripple effects across Latin America

Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Monash University In a major setback in the fight against gender-based violence, Argentinian President Javier Milei’s government has announced it will repeal the crime of femicide from the penal code. In a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, Milei dismissed femicide laws as a product of “woke” culture and […]

28/12/2024 | Kate Fitz-Gibbon | Domestic and family violence, Homicide law reform, New publication, New research, Policy, Violence against women

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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