Domestic Violence

A Perth man with a history of family violence is jailed for 15 years for a "prolonged" and "brutal" attack on his partner that only stopped when she pretended to be unconscious.  

Queensland police are investigating the death of a woman in Ipswich after locating her body during a welfare check. 

For Sandra, getting a divorce was important because remaining legally married to her now ex-husband made her feel "disgusted, humiliated, and sad". Three years and $1,200 later she says she is finally free.

Federal, state and territory governments have all committed to ending gender-based violence within one generation.

A man charged with three counts of attempted murder of police officers in the state's far-north-west has faced court in Tasmania. 

First responders, families and support workers gather in Lalor Park in Sydney's south to remember three young children who died in a house fire at the weekend. 

The number of police officers targeting alcohol-related crime in WA's remote Kimberley region will be bolstered ahead of new liquor restrictions coming into effect from next week. 

Over the weekend Jimmy Maladina, who has been on conditional bail following the arrest, issued a statement saying he was fully cooperating with authorities and temporarily stepped aside as a minister while the matter is dealt with by the courts.

The 28-year-old man remains in hospital under police guard after being charged with multiple counts of domestic violence murder.

Frontline workers say chronic understaffing is putting lives at risk amid a spate of violence.

The Irish prime minister says he will intervene to help a 28-year-old flight attendant detained in Dubai under "the most appalling of circumstances".

The family violence centre in Mount Druitt has only managed to employ two case workers when there are meant to be seven, leaving the service chronically understaffed and struggling to stay open. 

About 20 children are murdered by a parent every year in Australia. It's a crime that evokes equal measures of horror and confusion. At the crux of the issue is male-perpetrated violence.

A man accused of killing his 85-year-old wife at their home in Adelaide's west has been committed to the state's highest court to stand trial, despite not entering a plea to murder.

An Adelaide man is alleged to have deliberately set fire to a southern suburbs home while a woman and her three children were inside on Sunday — just hours after three children perished in an unrelated house fire in Sydney.

Jeremaia Tuwai, 21, was arrested yesterday after a woman was allegedly stabbed in the chest at an apartment complex at Kingswood in Western Sydney.

After enduring years of abuse, and then years in prison, Robyn Westgate now runs a training program which aims to reduce domestic violence.  

A man who rushed into a burning home to rescue several children has relived the heartbreaking moment he fought off the father who allegedly tried to trap the family inside.

Jarrod Hawkins ran into the burning home in Sydney's West in the early hours of Sunday morning, and helped rescue four of the seven children inside.

The man allegedly attempted to strangle his wife "with force" before stabbing her with a 32-centimetre kitchen knife during a violent altercation at their home on Friday night.

Police have arrested a 22-year-old man after a woman was allegedly stabbed to death in Sydney's west in what they say is a domestic violence-related incident.

Indigenous groups in a Kimberley town say a free music festival is a way to create stronger families in an area where violence in the home is rife.

A three-year-old and six-year-old boy, as well as a 10-month-old girl, died after the fire in Sydney's west on Sunday.

Two women who endured decades of intimate partner violence have been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy — the first cases of CTE in victims of domestic violence in Australia and two of just a handful globally.

Three young children have died overnight after a house fire at Lalor Park in Sydney's west.