The NSW Government Minister for Women, Pru Goward, recently made the announcement that the government will be investing in three new domestic violence prevention studies. These three studies will focus on the fact that more evidence is needed in order figure out the funding priorities of government programs in NSW. The Minister of Women says…
DetailsMilitary sexual trauma include both sexual assault and sexual harassment while under a military setting. The United States Department of Veteran Affairs recently published an article outlining the issues involved with veteran care. The sexual harassment can include anything from unwelcome physical or verbal conduct involving gender, sexuality, and sexual coercion. Sexual harassment involves both…
DetailsClearinghouse recently commissioned a paper to address the issues regarding providing services to Indigenous Australian children that have suffered domestic violence in the home. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare joined up with the Australian Institute of Family Studies to implement the Clearinghouse. Services intended to provide assistance to Indigenous Australian children are still…
DetailsThe Department of Veteran Affairs in the United States has recently published an article in an attempt to help military women that have experienced sexual assault to recognise some of the symptoms that result from victimisation. These symptoms can be very varied depend on the type and duration of the sexual trauma faced by the…
DetailsThe Minister for Women, Pru Goward, announced today that the NSW government will be putting money towards funding the first telephone counselling service for men in NSW. The telephone and referral service will be aimed at men who are violent or potentially violent to help them to change their behaviour and to help curb instances…
DetailsA new app has been launched that is especially designed for people that are going through domestic violence and family violence. This app is the first app to be created especially to help domestic violence victims and will allow them information and access to services so that they can have a trustworthy person to contact…
DetailsMinister for Women, Pru Goward, recently requested that the communities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people come together in order to provide information on the NSW Government’s reforms in response to domestic violence issues and family violence in NSW. The reforms focus on victims of domestic violence that will help to send the message…
DetailsThe Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse recently prepared a brief where they pointed out the data from studies that show that domestic violence has an impact on the mental health of the victims involved and can result in long term negative consequences for the victim of domestic violence. According to statistics, out of a…
DetailsA new strategy has been put into place in NSW Australia in order to help more victims of domestic violence and also to address the issue of perpetrators being held responsible for their actions. The strategy is also designed to keep the perpetrators from repeating the same actions. The idea is to address the entire…
DetailsAccording to a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) physical or sexual violence is a serious public health problem that affects more than one-third of all women globally. Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO, said that the findings “send a powerful message that violence against women is a global health problem of epidemic…
DetailsOn Wednesday 10 July 2013 just after 6.40 pm a male assailant entered a convenience store in William Street in the Melbourne CBD and asked the female shop assistant to come to the rear of the store regarding a store product and then followed her back behind the shop counter where he threatened her with a…
DetailsOn Sunday the 28-07-13 at around 3.00 am a brawl erupted outside a function centre in Albion involving in excess of eighty people. One male was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a serious condition and two others were taken to the Sunshine Hospital. A twenty-seven-year-old male has since been arrested. Victims of physical…
DetailsOn Friday the 26-07-13 at around 4.00 am two assailants wearing balaclavas entered the Newsagency on Curtin Street in Bell Park and demanded cash and cigarettes from the shop attendant. The two assailants stole the till containing cash and fled in a small red motor vehicle. Geelong detectives are investigating the robbery. If you have been…
DetailsBeyondblue has recently received a grant to undertake a project under the direction of Associate Professor Tricia Nagel at the Menzies School of Health Research. The project was granted under the award of Beyondblue National Priority Driven Research Program. The grant amount was roughly $80,000 in order to assist in the costs associated with undertaking…
DetailsThe Foundation to Prevent Violence Against Women and their Children recently launched in Melbourne will support early intervention programs, create campaigns on social media and back research on the best ways of reducing family and domestic violence. Natasha Stott Despoja, former Australian Democrats leader, will head the foundation. Ms Stott Despoja said she will be…
DetailsOn the 23-07-13 at around 5.00 am two armed assailants wearing balaclavas waited for the KFC store on Sturt Street in Ballarat to be opened and then forced a staff person to give them access to the restaurant where the assailants stole money from the safe. The assailants then fled the scene with the staff…
DetailsOn the evening of Saturday the 20-07-13 a twenty-year-old male from the Puckapunyal Army Base was the victim of an assault at a Seymour nightclub. The victim sustained a fractured eye socket, a fractured jaw and a fractured skull. Police would like to talk with a thirty-year-old male over the physical assault and are appealing…
DetailsOn Sunday the 21-07-13 at around 7.20 pm a male assailant entered the Moonee Ponds Gaming Venue on Mount Alexander Road and handed the Cashier a note demanding money and indicating that he was armed. The Cashier alerted a work colleague and the assailant snatched back the note and fled. Later that same night, at…
DetailsOn the 17-07-13 at around 6.30 am two men were involved in an altercation on the corner of Albion Street and Brighton Road in Balaclava when one male produced a box cutter and slashed the throat of the other male. The victim of the vicious assault was treated at The Alfred Hospital in St Kilda.…
DetailsOn Sunday the 21-07-13 at around 3.00 pm police arrived at Greeves Street in St Kilda to find a forty-year-old female’s body in a white Ford Econovan. Police believe that the victim was a local sex worker who had been living in the van and that she had been killed inside her van and sustained upper…
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