The Latest Breaking News from domestic violence

A Brisbane man who carried out a string of violent crimes, including fatally shooting a man he believed was committing domestic violence, is jailed for 15 years.

NYPD Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell was unable to confirm if the shooting was a domestic violence incident.

In 2020 the killing of Hannah Clarke and her three children – Aaliyah, 6, Laianah, 4, and Trey, 3 – by her former partner Rowan Baxter, horrified the nation. It prompted significant calls for urgent action on violence against women and improved recognition of coercive control as a leading precursor…

Most Queenslanders remember Hannah Clarke as the one whose death shocked the nation but our daughter was so much more than a victim, write Sue and Lloyd Clarke.

‘Women have had enough,’ says Prof Kerry Carrington, who has been advocating for domestic violence stations since 2015

The man was arrested on suspicion of breaching domestic violence protection order

Some locals in an affluent Canberra suburb objected to a proposed site for a home for older women and women escaping domestic violence. Today, the government approved the plans and implemented a clause to prevent further objections.

An inquest into the deaths of Brisbane woman Hannah Clarke and her three children has delivered its findings. Warning: This report contains content some people may find distressing.

42 complaints settled at Women’s Commission adalat