Domestic-violence Articles

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November 29, 2025

‘We’ve got to listen to dead women’: critical part of Queensland’s DV response stops reviewing all recent deaths

Exclusive: Experts raise concern as Queensland’s Domestic and Family Violence Death Review and Advisory Board turns focus to historical, rather than...

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November 23, 2025

‘Cannot believe it’s still happening’: readers respond to ‘heartbreaking’ domestic violence homicides

Readers share the impact of Guardian Australia’s two-year investigation Broken trust, which underlined the ‘shocking realities of domestic...

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November 22, 2025

‘Dangerous and undermines our systems’: Tanya Plibersek condemns serious police failures in Queensland DV deaths

Plibersek said those victims - Hannah Clarke and her children, Kardell Lomas and her unborn child, and Gail Karran - ‘should have been kept safe’Get...

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November 20, 2025

Statistically, there’s a reliable way to predict a domestic violence homicide like Hannah Clarke’s

Queensland researchers studying intimate-partner killings found one thing common to more than half the casesPolice made

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November 16, 2025

Hannah Clarke murders: Queensland police made potentially critical mistakes, new evidence reveals

Exclusive: Detectives investigated ‘veracity and motive’ of Brisbane woman’s allegations of domestic violence and coercive control - even after the...

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August 28, 2025

Controversial domestic violence laws pass Queensland parliament as experts warn they could be weaponised against victims

Police to have power to issue ‘on-the-spot’ DV orders despite experts and advocacy groups warning victims could be misidentified as perpetrators

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July 29, 2025

Victorian coroner calls out family violence failures after husband ambushes wife with hatchet

‘It is critical that specialist family violence services make contact and offer support to people who use violence in a timely manner,’ coroner...

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