In a win for animal welfare, pets will now be recognised as victims of family violence as an Animal Justice Party motion proposing changes to Victoria’s family violence laws passed unanimously in Parliament today. The motion has called on the government to review the Family...
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Addressing domestic violence’s root cause: New Alberta program aims to help men with abusive behaviour
A unique program aimed at helping those dealing with domestic abuse launched in southern Alberta on Monday. The goal of Rowan House Society’s Safe at Home in Claresholm is to help men treat abusive behaviour. Read more: Calgary advocates warn about coercive control, another...
Graph shows Australian state’s DV shame
Queensland’s shameful record of domestic violence order breaches has been laid bare, with damning statistics revealing they’ve doubled in the past six years despite fewer DVO applications through the courts. The revelation comes in the week Doreen Langham was killed in a house fire along...
Top Qld cops ‘deeply saddened’ by domestic violence death
Queensland’s top cops say they “don’t know what more” Doreen Langham could have done before she was killed in a unit fire alongside her former partner. Ms Langham and her ex-partner Gary Hely, whom she had taken a domestic violence order out against in early...
Woman contacted cops ‘daily’ before death
A Queensland woman who was found dead in her home next to her ex-partner in the early hours of Monday morning has reportedly contacted police “daily” in the lead up to her death. Two bodies, believed to belong to Doreen Langham and her ex-partner Gary...