Domestic violence

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 […]