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Nicholas Smedley

Businessman with history of family violence resigns from gentlemen’s club role

Nicholas Smedley has stepped down from a prestigious role at The Australian Club after his history of domestic violence was reported by The Age last month, causing ructions within the exclusive club.

  • Cameron Houston and Melissa Cunningham

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More than one third of men in a big study by AIFS say they have used a form of family violence, as experts call for men with depression to be asked directly about how conflict is resolved in their relationships.

A good father helps stop boys committing abuse in relationships later in life, study finds

The world’s biggest longitudinal study of men’s health found a third had used a form of intimate partner violence.

  • Wendy Tuohy

‘Excuse me. I’ve killed my wife’: The ongoing menace of forced marriage in Australia

At 21, Ruqia Haidari was murdered by the man she was forced to marry. Other women in Australia have made desperate escapes to avoid a similar fate.

  • Melissa Fyfe

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Family Court produced a video to feature at half time of Friday's Collingwood v Hawthorn match, with famous Australian men calling on men to act on family violence.
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Leading men speak out on family violence

Family Court produced a video to feature at half time of Friday's Collingwood v Hawthorn match, with famous Australian men calling on men to act on family violence.

Chief Justice of the Federal Circuit and Family Court, Will Alstergren has brought together prominent men in a call to action on ending family violence.

‘Men just aren’t part of the conversation’: Stars demand an end to family violence

Prominent Australian men including Hugh Jackman, Travis Fimmel and Darcy Moore are asking all men to call out violence against women.

  • Grant McArthur
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Safe Steps CEO Chelsea Tobin inside ‘Sanctuary’, which temporarily houses women and children experiencing family violence.

New high-security shelters for women in crisis to sit empty during family violence epidemic

Hundreds of women and children facing mortal danger will miss out on refuge housing and services as a funding stoush continues.

  • Wendy Tuohy
Macron kisses his wife Brigitte on election day in 2017.

The Macrons have always shown a united front. Now we’ve had a glimpse behind the curtain

It was supposed to be a routine presidential visit. But as the doors of Emmanuel Macron’s plane opened we instead got a rare glimpse of a power couple’s extraordinary dynamic.

  • Susanna Galton
Hannah Clarke and her three children were murdered by Clarke’s estranged partner in 2020 in Camp Hill.

Intimate partner control a crime as Hannah’s Law comes into effect

Controlling behaviours linked with physical and sometimes lethal escalation now come with up to 14 years’ prison for convicted offenders.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
Nicholas Smedley

Uproar after exclusive club appoints man who assaulted former fiancee to senior role

The appointment has prompted concern from some members of the men-only Australian Club and family violence campaigners.

  • Cameron Houston and Melissa Cunningham

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