Domestic violence
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- Melbourne
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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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
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- Good Weekend
‘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
- Magazine
- Good Weekend
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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.
‘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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- Victorian Parliament
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
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
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
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- City life
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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