Hayley Gleeson is a journalist with ABC News reporting in-depth features and investigations with a particular focus on domestic violence and criminal and social justice issues. Contact: [email protected] or [email protected].
Frustrated psychiatrists and lawyers say an alarming uptick in homicides by people with psychosis is a triple tragedy for perpetrators, victims and the wider public because many of the deaths could have been prevented.
NSW's coercive control law has been life-changing for DV victims like Samantha Bouffler. But two years in, it's unclear whether the contentious new legislation is the statewide success story many have been hoping for.
Better Man is Ben Vasiliou's contribution to what has become an urgent, if noisy, conversation about what it means to be a man, and at what cost. Just don't mention the 't-word'.
A new inquiry into violence against sex workers in Australia and Thailand comes just weeks after the murder of Thai teenager Tunchanok Donhomla, allegedly by an Australian man.
After 27 years as a journalist, broadcaster and program maker at the ABC, Virginia Trioli announces she is leaving to pursue new creative opportunities.
A woman who says she suffered life-changing stress and anxiety — and later, the death of one of her babies — after a Victoria Police officer unlawfully disclosed that she was pregnant wants her story known.
A world-first research project is aiming to prevent family and intimate partner homicides with similar strategies to those being used to tackle terrorism and lone-actor attacks.
When Tasmania Police misidentified Laura as a family violence perpetrator, she had no idea she'd have to fight for them to hold her abuser — a serving officer — to account. Now, she's fighting for change.
IBAC's public apology to Jana Katerinskaja is a sharp reminder of the struggle for accountability victims of police-perpetrated family violence too often face.
With immunisation rates declining and outbreaks of infectious diseases like measles increasing, the consequences of vaccine hesitancy in Australia are becoming clearer.
The eradication of smallpox 46 years ago has been hailed as the greatest triumph of global public health. It has also been held up as a model for global cooperation.
Victims must always be believed. The uncomfortable truth, however, is that statistically, it is almost impossible to predict lethal family violence because it is so rare.
The findings are significant not just because of how much the trial reduced domestic violence, but because only a few years ago it drew fierce criticism from women's advocates and politicians.
Marilyn Warren made history when she was appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, though she has never thought of herself as a trailblazer.
For years Rawson Kirkhope tried to outrun his trauma, self-medicating with booze, soaking in the toxic cultures of football and the navy. Now he's turning a struggle he was ashamed of into a recovery story he's proud to share.
Police responses to family violence are too often harming not helping victims, replicating the power and control dynamics that underpin abuse and increasing risk, trauma and feelings of powerlessness, new research has found.
New documents obtained by the ABC show a disparity between outcomes for Victorian police officers accused of family violence and criminal defendants in the general community. Sexual abuse advocates say the documents raise questions over Victoria Police's team responsible for investigating serious cases of sexual and family violence by serving officers.
New documents obtained by the ABC show a disparity between outcomes for Victorian police officers accused of family violence and criminal defendants in the general community. Sexual abuse advocates say the documents raise questions over Victoria Police's team responsible for investigating serious cases of sexual and family violence by serving officers.
Three years after Victoria Police stood up a new unit to investigate family violence by serving officers, women say they've faced shocking treatment and even criminal charges themselves after gathering the courage to report abuse.
Vaccine Nation is a warning about the acceleration of the anti-vaccination movement during the pandemic and worrying declines in vaccination rates around the world. Can we correct course before it's too late?
What about the people who change their career not to scratch some creative or philanthropic itch or make a truckload of money, but out of necessity — because illness or injury derailed or destroyed their ability to work?
A restless period of cancer treatment gave Jess Hill the clarity and courage to finally voice her ideas about why Australia's National Plan for Ending Gender Based Violence is failing.
Long COVID is snuffing out some patients' dreams of having children, and complicating pregnancy and parenthood for those who choose to conceive despite their symptoms and doubts about when or if they will recover.
Thousands of patients caught COVID in NSW public hospitals last year and hundreds died, fuelling concerns among infection control experts that hospitals are not taking strong enough precautions against airborne viruses.
A free online course aims to bust COVID misinformation and teach people how to stop the virus spreading in schools. But perhaps its greatest challenge is engaging people in the first place — particularly those who believe COVID is harmless.
