Safe Steps chief executive Chelsea Tobin.

‘Invisible victims’:Calls for reform as family violence system fails children

The nation’s leading family violence prevention advocates and experts have warned that vulnerable children are falling through cracks and desperately need their own tailored services.

  • Grant McArthur

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Pasawm Lyhym died after being stabbed in Sunshine earlier this month.

Judge sheds tears as teen killer faces 13 years’ jail for stabbing schoolboy

In the moments before Pasawm Lyhym was murdered near a busy Melbourne train station he desperately tried to protect himself with a nearby shopping trolley.

  • Melissa Cunningham
Anthony Albanese approached by an alt-right protester.

I’ve followed our leaders for 10 elections now. Society is getting angrier

Protesters have always been liable to get angry. But the police presence during this election campaign shows that anger is getting worse.

  • Shane Wright
Noah Balta at Richmond training earlier this year.

Jacinta Allan joins calls for Noah Balta to sit out of football until his sentencing

Balta won’t return to the Richmond senior side this weekend,and Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan wants him to sit out until he is sentenced for his attack on a man in NSW.

  • Roy Ward andRachel Eddie
Owen Cooper stars as 13-year-old Jamie Miller in Adolescence. The series illustrates how vulnerable young boys can be when they fall under the influence of toxic masculinity.

After ‘Adolescence’:How a TV show made Britain confront its problem with lost boys

Boys are falling into a dangerous world full of anger and entitlement,experts say,and it shouldn’t take a TV show to stop it.

  • Rob Harris
Aveley Secondary College principal Stephen Pestana has released a statement to parents about the incident.

Perth school,dad speak as student attacked at shops still in hospital

The school has released a statement,as the distraught father of the teen allegedly coward-punched and head-stomped at a suburban shopping centre asks for justice.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
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Laura is a victim of financial abuse.

‘I did it to put you in jail’:Tax system is ‘weaponised’ to harm partners,ombudsman finds

Victims often became aware they owed significant amounts only when they received penalty notices,and they usually had to pay the debts.

  • Wendy Tuohy
AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw said he was troubled by the rise of threats against politicians.

‘Extreme violence’:Threats against politicians soar

Female politicians face especially troubling threats of sexual violence in the increasingly febrile political environment,the AFP chief has said.

  • Matthew Knott
The woman was killed on April 5,2023.

Grandfather of killer teen gives heartbreaking account of ‘everyday sadness’ at losing his daughter

A grandfather’s simple gesture in the Supreme Court drives home the agony this family now endures. His daughter is dead,and his grandson faces years behind bars for murder.

  • Erin Pearson
Lilly Munro had to deal with aggressive and offensive behaviour at work and then repercussions for reporting it.

Bashed,harassed and black-banned:CFMEU sides with bikies,not women

The union has admitted it let women down in its response to violence as shocking examples of mistreatment emerge.

  • Nick McKenzie,Sarah Danckert andAmelia Ballinger