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Letters: This issue of licensed lethal domestic violence has been repeatedly overlooked at great cost, writes criminology professor Peter Squires

Advocates welcome attention on the issue during the campaign but say long-term commitments are what’s needed

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Content warning: this article contains mentions of racial discrimination against First Nations people, and themes of domestic violence.

Advocates for domestic violence victims were stunned by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling

Advocates for domestic violence victims were stunned by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, which continued a string of court decisions citing the Second Amendment to erase gun restrictions.

A federal appeals court ruling last week that people under restraining orders for domestic violence cannot be prohibited from having guns was utterly divorced from reality even if it also was utterly predictable. The U.S. Supreme Court, in setting a standard on gun laws that relies on the trendy right-wing…

Are Australians becoming complacent about the scourge of domestic violence? Are the figures just too overwhelming? If so, that must stop.

If a foreign enemy wanted to destroy the United States without anyone noticing, it might try to find a way to weaponize the rights we cherish and use them against us. That way, every action we take to defend our liberty would actually be a blow against it.

Some 1.6 million women (17%) and 548,000 men (6.1%) in Australia aged 15 or older have experienced physical or sexual violence from a current or previous cohabiting partner. This means significant proportions of the population in Australia have perpetrated domestic or sexual violence.

A federal court finds that women's lives are less important than a bizarre misreading of the Second Amendment