This article offers Indigenous leaders' guidance on culturally sensitive support for victim survivors. Read about respecting cultural nuances and understanding historical trauma.

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Today is Are You Safe at Home? Day, a time to check in with those around you and ensure they feel secure in their homes. Today, start the conversation.

Men’s behaviour change programs are an incredibly important part of the puzzle in responding to men’s use of family violence.

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Critically important conversations today at the Crisis
Talks into Murdered and Missing Women in Canberra. Those with lived experience joined experts from across the family violence sector and governments, including NSW Women’s Safety Commissioner Hannah Tonkin.

Victorian budget “missed a crucial opportunity”.

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We need radical change to focus on the real problem, and that is men using family violence.

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Domestic Violence NSW Domestic Violence Awareness Month campaign this year draws attention to the incredible people working on the frontlines of domestic, sexual and family violence – people just like our own wonderful Celeste!

‘Education and public awareness are important but they are not, in themselves, a cure.’

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Remember and honour those who have been killed by domestic and family violence.

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I asked this last week, and I’ll ask again. Media, please include Men’s Referral Service on 1300 766 491 for those at risk of using violence, it regularly gets forgotten.

Rallies demanding action on violence against women are happening in 12 locations across Australia this weekend. Organised by 'What Were You Wearing' and others, these rallies demand change. Learn more:
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This national emergency requires an emergency response.

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Our CEO, Phillip Ripper, appeared on Channel 10 Midday news stressing the need to discuss men's role in violence. Addressing family and domestic violence means acknowledging men's role in perpetuating it.

Join us at 'Ending Coercive Control, Family & Domestic Violence Against Women' for crucial discussions on the national crisis of violence against women. inTouch's Principal Lawyer, Ajsela Siskovic will discuss impacts on refugee & migrant women. Register: go.the-hatchery.co/speaker8422

Yet another enquiry revealing the deeply troubling pattern of domestic violence and systemic shortcomings in the NT. We recognise the commendable efforts of our colleagues in the family violence sector in the NT.

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'It is a scourge in our society and it must end.' Brilliant to see the Attorney-General putting the onus on men at a family violence symposium today in Melbourne.

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Huge shout out to our wonderful colleagues at Tangentyere Council who are doing incredible work with men from First Nations communities who have used family violence.

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The Ballarat community will rally against men's violence today following the death of a third woman in the region this year.

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📢 Discover the revamped 'Policy Submissions and Position Papers' page on No to Violence's website!

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'We must hold perpetrators to account, yes, but we must also instil in our boys something better than this narrow and damaging definition we use to describe a 'real man'.”

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