Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service (FVPLS) Victoria provides legal services to Aboriginal victims of family violence and sexual assault, advocates for legal and policy reform and conducts a […]
Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service (FVPLS) Victoria provides legal services to Aboriginal victims of family violence and sexual assault, advocates for legal and policy reform and conducts a […]
A free service initiated by the Magistrates’ Court has been established in Victoria to support Koori men and women involved with family violence matters in the court system. The pilot […]
This report provides detail from a review of the literature regarding the prevention of and response to family violence with a focus on engaging Aboriginal men in remote communities. The […]
The Koori Family Violence Police Protocols project in Victoria is driven by Victoria Police and the Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service, and is currently being piloted in Mildura. […]
Resources Apr,2011
The strategy sets out a model of care that will guide the implementation of specific actions by local health districts, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services, and other non-government service providers. […]
Discusses the ways in which the Australian Law Reform Commission engages with Indigenous stakeholders and outlines how Indigenous people can be more actively involved in the process of law reform.
This evaluation report describes a community initiative that took place in East Gippsland in late November 2008. The Gippsland CommUNITY Walk Against Family Violence extended over four days and brought […]
In 2003 the Victorian Indigenous Family Violence Task Force established that levels of violence were increasing and that responding to family violence required breaking a ‘silence of acceptance’ which allowed […]
Violent crime statistics drawn from police data do not show the large amount of violent crime and victimisation that is never disclosed to police. Within this ‘dark figure of crime’ […]
Is it appropriate to apply restorative justice practices to cases involving domestic violence or family violence? After describing and evaluating claims made about restorative justice generally, this paper reviews the […]