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Holiday Family Violence Incidents Rise Over Christmas

Tasmanian family violence service Engender Equality is urging service providers to lead with empathy and awareness this Christmas. The call comes as...

GPs Offered Free Family Violence Response Training 4

GPs Offered Free Family Violence Response Training 5

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GPs Offered Free Family Violence Response Training

Primary Health Tasmania has partnered with the University of Melbourne’s Safer Families Centre to launch a fully funded training program designed to...

16 Days Global Push - End Gender Violence Now 8

16 Days Global Push - End Gender Violence Now 9

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16 Days Global Push – End Gender Violence Now

As the global 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence begins, Tasmania is at the centre of national discussions on family and...

Systems Abuse Follows Women Behind Prison Walls 16

Systems Abuse Follows Women Behind Prison Walls 17

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Systems Abuse Follows Women Behind Prison Walls

The death of Chelsea Bracken at Mary Hutchinson Women’s Prison has exposed a critical failure – the correctional system itself perpetuates the...

Reproductive Coercion in the Spotlight 21

Reproductive Coercion in the Spotlight 22

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Reproductive Coercion in the Spotlight

On World Contraception Day, Engender Equality is highlighting reproductive coercion as a serious form of interpersonal abuse and sexual violence that restricts...

Domestic Violence Victims Suffer Unseen Brain Injuries 24

Domestic Violence Victims Suffer Unseen Brain Injuries 25

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Domestic Violence Victims Suffer Unseen Brain Injuries

Media release – Engender Equality, 13 August 2025 BRAIN INJURY COMMON IN VICTIM-SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE As we approach Brain Injury Awareness...