Violence and Vulnerability: Mapping the intersections between family violence and caring relationships

The project will produce and distribute a series of engaging and informative legal rights messages for a general community broadcasting audience. The short announcements will address issues such as protest rights, renter rights, fines, consumer law and family violence. The content will be tailored to a community radio listening audience.

Reproductive coercion and abuse (RCA) is emerging as a critical and under-researched form of family/intimate partner violence. South-East Monash Legal Service seek to better understand RCA in the legal context, and identify effective strategies and interventions to ensure that the legal assistance sector is able to effectively support disclosures of RCA.

Following the shift to routine digital engagement when applying to the court for family violence intervention orders, this partnership project between Northern Community Legal Centre and the Australian Muslim Women’s Centre for Human Rights will unpack the range of process issues and barriers to participation faced by culturally and linguistically diverse women within Melbourne’s North-West.

Monash Law Clinics will explore how future planning and guardianship laws might be used to identify family violence and improve safety for victims of family violence by restricting coercive behaviour by the perpetrator. The research concentrates on a specific form of family violence and will look at the role Health Justice Partnerships play in promoting preventative legal practices.