Domestic violence

Women around the world have been using the hashtag #WhyIStayed to reveal their stories and the complexities involved with leaving an abusive partner.

Fiction or not? 'Fifty Shades of Grey' readers are more likely to have abusive partners, eating disorders, multiple sexual partners and binge drink.

A young girl's depiction of domestic violence highlights society's dangerous attitudes.

Why did the wives of showbiz legends Rolf Harris and Robert Hughes stand by them after hearing days of shattering evidence from their vulnerable young victims?

There it was again last night, on display for the nation to see. The strength, the stoicism and the ultimate sadness that has come to define Rosie Batty – the mother who lost her 11-year old son, Luke to a wholly preventable act of violence at the hands of his father during cricket practice in February.

Rosie Batty, the woman whose 11-year-old son was murdered earlier this year by his father at a Victorian cricket ground, is now receiving hate mail because of her stand against domestic violence.

Sydney Swans champion Adam Goodes has revealed how troubling childhood experiences with domestic violence have driven him to take a public stand on the issue.

In eight short weeks a charming stranger made Kay Schubach leave her partner lose her job and fall pregnant sucking her into a violent relationship she almost died trying to escape.

Editor-in-chief Helen McCabe explains why The Australian Women's Weekly did not name Rachael Taylor's abuser in this month's cover story.

The 29-year-old Australian actress writes about her private nightmare in the March issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly on sale tomorrow. “One woman per week in Australia dies at the hands of her current or former partner,” Rachael writes. “I don’t think any woman thinks they will become an addition to these statistics. I didn’t. […]

On an April morning last year, four-year-old Aron Siermans sat alone by his dead mother's body as day broke in Ballarat, Victoria.

A young man whose father stabbed his mother to death on a packed dance floor in Adelaide today speaks out against family violence to mark White Ribbon Day.

Nigella Lawson and Charles Saatchi are set to divorce — just weeks after the multi-millionaire was pictured choking his celebrity chef and TV star wife. Photographs of an apparently terrified Nigella Lawson being grabbed by the throat by the burly hands of her 70-year-old husband shocked the world when they were published by a London […]

Shocking statistics have emerged about the rate of women affected by domestic violence across the world. According to the World Health Organisation, more than one third of all women are victims of domestic violence with Asia being the worst affected. In high income countries including Australia the figure is almost one in four. By gathering […]

Nigella Lawson's husband has been cautioned by police for assault over a public display display of abuse which he describes as a "playful tiff".

A distressed Nigella Lawson has reportedly fled her marital home with suitcase in hand hours after pictures of the chef apparently being grabbed by the throat by her husband surfaced in a UK tabloid.

A Spanish charity has unveiled an innovative new anti-child abuse poster that only kids can see. The Anar Foundation image uses a special printing technique more commonly seen on novelty postcards to ensure its important message is only visible to children. A child looking at the poster would see a bruised kid with the message […]

Ricky Nixon’s former fiancée has opened up about the night last July when the former sports agent viciously attacked her in their Port Melbourne home. Tegan Gould, 28, tells the May issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly that she still has nightmares about Ricky coming towards her brandishing a kitchen knife. “I thought he was […]

Detective Inspector Bryson Anderson, who died yesterday after becoming embroiled in a violent neighbourhood dispute on the outskirts of Sydney, was the kind of police officer other cops try to emulate. I spoke to him several times last year while working on a story about Catherine Smith, a woman who endured 30 years of violent […]

Conde Nast has sparked outrage by publishing an image of a male model choking supermodel Stephanie Seymour on the cover of Vogue Hommes International. Women’s rights groups have written a letter accusing the publisher of “glorifying domestic violence as an act of love” and demanding they withdraw the magazine from sale immediately. “Choking is not […]

The Humane Society has stripped a man of his bravery award after The Australian Women’s Weekly revealed he had been jailed for beating his wife. During a series of attacks, Paul Francis McCuskey kicked his partner Jeannie Blackburn in the head so hard he snapped her optic nerve and left her blinded in one eye. […]

Quentin Bryce has called on the Royal Humane Society to strip a bravery award from a jailed Black Saturday fire fighter who kicked his partner in the head so hard he snapped her optic nerve and left her blinded in one eye. The Governor-General, a patron of the Royal Humane Society, wrote to the society […]

Catherine Smith was terrorised by her husband in one of the worst cases of domestic violence ever recorded in Australia. Yet while the blows were directed at her, it was her children who suffered the most. It’s the night that Catherine Smith fears the most. Not for the darkness, but for the nightmares that lurk […]

Domestic violence kills an Australian woman almost every week but Jordan Baker doesn't think we take it seriously enough.

A Black Saturday fire-fighter who kicked his former partner in the head so hard it blinded her in the left eye will keep his Royal Humane Society Certificate of Merit, despite the trauma caused to his victim and the feelings of his fellow fire-fighters. Paul Francis McCuskey, 41, of Reefton, in rural Victoria — who […]

A Black Saturday fire-fighter who kicked his former partner in the head so hard it snapped her optic nerve and blinded her in one eye has been given a bravery award by the Royal Humane Society of Australasia. In a ceremony attended by Victorian Governor Alex Curnov and other dignitaries at Melbourne Town Hall on […]

Can you imagine a world where women sit frightened and alone, too scared to move? A world where a simple trip to the shops could mean another broken bone? A world where the threat of violence is an everyday occurrence? Sadly, many women don’t have to imagine it. They live it. According to UNICEF, domestic […]

My partner has a short temper and little things really get to him and eat away at him and he also doesn’t take criticism well. It scares and upsets me when he gets angry as I’m quite a placid person. When he gets upset he lashes out and hits things, but he says he’d never […]

Danielle Guttridge is proof the tragic cycle of domestic violence can be broken. Engulfed by laughter and the lively chatter of her three daughters, Danielle Guttridge is a picture of perfect calm and serenity. Danielle, 26, from Cootamundra in NSW, loves nothing better than to hear that happiest of sounds – little girls giggling at […]

I have been married for 17 months and I am now wondering if I have made a mistake and if I should stay or go. This is mine and my husband’s second marriage. We get along very well, but recently have had several incidences that have left me wondering if I have done the right […]