New threats testing Australia's plan to end violence against women

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How it spread - 23 original reports, 3 reprints

1. Sat, 29 August 2026

   1 report
   • ABC News (Australia)19:00first to report
     New threats testing Australia's plan to end violence against women

     The next five-year plan plan to end violence against women will have to do more than accelerate existing efforts. It will have to prove governments can keep pace with a problem that itself is changing.

2. Tue, 8 September 2026

   1 report
   • brisbanetimes.com.au19:00
     Labor planned to end domestic violence in a generation. Instead, sexual violence is at record high

     The nation’s leading authority on domestic abuse has warned Labor’s reforms are failing to shift the dial.

3. Wed, 9 September 2026

   1 report
   • muswellbrookchronicle.com.au19:01
     Response to gender violence news inadequate: poll

     The response to high-profile instances of gender-based violence in recent weeks has not been adequate by the federal...

4. Thu, 10 September 2026

   1 report
   • ABC News (Australia)05:18
     Commissioner 'deeply worried' by sexual violence trajectory

     Rates of sexual violence have increased for 33 years, with a drop of less than one per cent in the past 12 months.

5. Mon, 14 September 2026

   1 report
   • hardenexpress.com.au20:00
     Australia closer to HIV target but disparities exist

     Disproportionately high numbers of HIV in First Nations people reflect the need for better access to health care...

     2 reprints

     • illawarramercury.com.au14 Sept, 20:00their copy
     • edenmagnet.com.au14 Sept, 20:00their copy
6. Tue, 15 September 2026

   1 report
   • ABC News (Australia)19:08
     Cases of domestic violence 'disproportionately high' in country communities

     As Australia grapples with a domestic violence crisis, experts are pleading for more to be done in regional and rural Australia.

7. Mon, 21 September 2026

   1 report
   • mandurahmail.com.au19:00
     State's sex assault trials face overhaul to cut trauma

     Lawmakers are hoping to reduce the trauma of sex assault trials by limiting courtroom questioning and scrutiny of...

8. Tue, 22 September 2026

   2 reports
   • theconversation.com21:30
     Australia is responding to domestic violence after the event, not preventing it from happening

     Unfortunately, it is apparent federal and state governments are too often responding to men’s violence after the fact.

   • theconversation.com21:30
     Governments across Australia know how to stop violence against Indigenous women, they just don’t do it

     In inquiries and reviews, governments endlessly ask Indigenous communities what should be done, but rarely act on it. It’s time that changed.

9. Wed, 23 September 2026

   1 report
   • ABC News (Australia)19:58
     Study identifies 15 risk factors that can contribute to child sexual abuse

     Twenty years of sentencing data shows convictions for one of the most serious related offences are up by more than 60 per cent.

10. Thu, 24 September 2026

    1 report
    • miragenews.com04:00
      Older Australians' Crime Safety: Hidden Harms Revealed

      Australians are once again mourning after the alleged murders of three women in New South Wales over the weekend. With two of the victims being 70

11. Thu, 1 October 2026

    1 report
    • ABC News (Australia)19:04
      Tasmania's alarming family violence numbers keep going up

      Tasmania has 400 known serial family violence offenders, while police continue to see an increase in domestic and family violence incidents. Advocates say attitudes are still not changing, and more law reform is needed.

12. Tue, 13 October 2026

    2 reports
    • The Guardian World15:00
      ‘Manosphere’ warnings as rates of family and sexual violence against Australian children rise sharply

      Study authors say increase cannot be attributed to any one factor and list income inequality and reporting increases due to growing awareness as other likely reasons Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The sexual assault of Australian children has accelerated sharply since the pandemic, surprising researchers who expected rates to have fallen but instead found attacks on boys had risen 15.7%. Researchers expected rates to have dropped in line with other countries around...

    • ABC News (Australia)19:01
      Sexual and family violence against children at 'crisis point', study finds

      Violence and sexual violence against children have increased sharply across Australia, research by the University of Sydney finds.

13. Wed, 14 October 2026

    2 reports
    • Anadolu Agency (AA)01:04
      Sexual, domestic violence against children rises sharply in Australia: Study

      Police-recorded sexual assault rates among boys age 10-17 surged after 2021, while researchers call for stronger prevention measures

    • ABC News (Australia)21:03
      Indigenous women document DV crisis and offer their own solutions

      In the remote Northern Territory, where a local women's shelter is already at capacity, a group of Indigenous women have created a roadmap they hope will break the cycle of domestic violence.

14. Sun, 18 October 2026

    1 report
    • ABC News (Australia)18:27
      They fled violence in their own country, but are still at risk, advocates say

      It is difficult, and often dangerous, for any woman to leave a violent relationship, but it can be even more so in a foreign country, up against language and cultural barriers.

15. Wed, 21 October 2026

    1 report
    • miragenews.com05:30
      WA's 10th Annual 16 Days Campaign Targets Family Violence

      Tenth annual 16 Days in WA campaign begins on 25 November 2026Enduring theme 'Stopping Family and Domestic Violence: Play your part' calls on all

16. Thu, 22 October 2026

    1 report
    • inverelltimes.com.au18:30
      Dead at 21: what will it take for people to take notice of this horrible scourge

      Why do we reject the idea that these women's lives matter?

      1 reprint

      • cootamundraherald.com.au22 Oct, 18:30their copy
17. Mon, 2 November 2026

    1 report
    • southernhighlandnews.com.au18:00
      Resource hub to keep children safe from sexual harm

      A hub supporting young people's sexual safety will equip them, their parents and practitioners with resources to recognise...

18. Thu, 5 November 2026

    1 report
    • ABC News (Australia)00:17
      More than 140 NT youths charged with domestic violence crimes in six months

      In the last three months, two teenage girls in the Northern Territory have allegedly been murdered by their older, male partners — support services say it's proof of a growing need among young DV victims.

19. Sun, 8 November 2026

    1 report
    • hepburnadvocate.com.au23:45
      'We do not wait': grieving parents plead for protection

      Parents of children who have died after social media bullying will front an inquiry in support of the...

20. Mon, 9 November 2026

    1 report
    • The Guardian World14:00
      ‘Settle down’ and ‘do your own swabs’: how alleged rape victims are treated in Queensland revealed in major report

      Prosecutors dropped cases because survivors ‘didn’t act how a rape victim should’, Australian Institute of Criminology review of 19,000 sexual assault cases finds Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Queensland police put sexual assault investigations “on the backburner” because detectives were overworked and under pressure to prioritise cases linked to political issues such as youth crime, a major new study has found. The report , published this month by the Australian...