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Royal Commission into Family Violence

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 […]

Children still invisible victims in national response to domestic and family violence

In today’s Herald Sun newspaper (page 21), Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Victorian Commissioner for Children and Young People Liana Buchanan urge the government to invest significantly and urgently to improve whole of system responses to children who experience domestic and family violence. Source: Herald Sun, 27 February 2025. What has Australia learned since the horrific […]