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Teal MPs including Zali Steggall have called for a royal commission into domestic and family violence.

Domestic violence royal commission ‘should examine family law system’

Teal MPs are calling for action amid warnings that perpetrators are weaponising the family court system and “deliberately driving up the other side’s legal costs”.

  • Michaela Whitbourn

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Parents are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in protracted family law fights.

‘I will work until the day I die’: The crippling cost of family law fights

Eloise was forced to flee a husband who subjected her and their children to a “daily regime of coercive control”. The legal bills were crushing.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
A police officer walks down the Campbelltown street on Monday night.

How are bullied and burnt-out officers expected to keep people safe?

Rampant bullying and unaddressed trauma are leaving officers stressed out and psychologically injured, an independent review has revealed.

  • Amber Schultz
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor with Virginia Giuffre (centre) and Jeffrey Epstein’s then personal assistant, Ghislaine Maxwell, in 2001.

‘Profound injustice’: 16 experts demand inquest for Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre

A rare intervention by some of Australia’s most prominent domestic violence experts warns it would be a “profound injustice” if potential systemic failures were not scrutinised.

  • Carla Hildebrandt and Melissa Fyfe
One third of all homicide deaths in the 26 years to March this year were DV-related.

The killers who walk among us

A new profile of the average NSW domestic violence killer challenges the misconception that he is confined to particular groups or occurs only on the margins of society.

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What 26 years of data says about the typical domestic violence killer

The statistics provide a unique profile of a domestic violence killer in NSW as the state’s coroner warned the “wicked and complex problem” was a persistent driver of homicide.

  • Clare Sibthorpe
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‘Slow femicide’: Call to hold abusive partners to account for suicides

One of the nation’s leading domestic violence experts has urged a rethink of the treatment of suicide deaths when there is a history of domestic abuse.

  • Carla Hildebrandt and Melissa Fyfe
Their relationship began as a whirlwind romance but soon became engulfed in emotional stress.

Byron psychedelic guru accused of choking ‘spiritual healer’

Tempers allegedly flared when the “alchemical storyteller” and his then partner began discussing a sexually charged internet meme.

  • Clare Sibthorpe
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NSW police officer accused of sexually assaulting, choking ex-wife

A Sydney court heard the officer allegedly told a child who called Triple Zero during one incident: “I will lose my job if you do that.”

  • Michaela Whitbourn and Riley Walter
Dallas Honeysett has become the first person charged with contravening a Serious Domestic Abuse Prevention Order

First person charged under strict new domestic abuse prevention laws

Dallas Honeysett has been charged with breaching a serious domestic abuse prevention order. He was on parole for other violent offences.

  • Amber Schultz