‘We should not fear the backlash from the Gillette campaign, we should welcome it.’
25 January 2019
What the backlash to the recent Gillette advertisement has demonstrated more than anything is that challenging deeply held cultural beliefs is not easy. Having spent 25 years on the front line working...
Working for change: Perpetrator interventions in LGBTI communities forum report
23 January 2019
On Friday 20 July 2018, No to Violence and Thorne Harbour Health co-hosted Victoria's annual LGBTIQ perpetrator interventions forum. This year's theme focused on 'how do we achieve and support health...
Everyday conversations challenging the drivers of men’s family violence
4 January 2019
With the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence having just finished and the #MeToo movement here to stay, people are increasingly asking what they can do to counter the harmful behaviours...
Downplaying men’s use of family violence won’t end it
19 December 2018
Family violence experts are calling on the media to report on incidents responsibly. Perth Now recently published an article which downplayed a man’s choice to use violence against his ex-partner. The...
No to Violence and DV-alert (Lifeline) focus group
28 November 2018
Do you want to learn more about responding to men who use violence? Would you like to become more involved in work to end men’s use of violence? No to Violence has worked with over 150,000 men who...
A brave new world: 18 months of working with men in the family courts
21 November 2018
In a place where tradition and protocols reign supreme, funding for new programs that change the way judges, lawyers and court staff all work together, is rarely granted. When the Family Advocacy and...
International Domestic Violence and Health Conference 2018: The hidden link between brain injury and family violence
21 November 2018
While the abhorrent rates of family violence are now well known in the community, the high prevalence of brain injury among family violence victim/survivors and perpetrators remains a hidden side effect...
Report: No to Violence Listening Tour Findings
29 October 2018
No to Violence has 25 years experience working with men who use family violence. We undertook a grass-roots listening tour in September and October which gave us the opportunity to combine our experience...
As a community, we have to work with violent men to bring about change
24 October 2018
Too many Australian women are still being murdered by men. Where has the public outrage gone, the demands to hold men accountable and work with them to bring about change? This is hard work, and it is...
‘Locking men up’ will not end men’s use of family violence
17 October 2018
On 17 October, the Victorian Liberal Party announced mandatory sentencing for men who use family violence. No to Violence do not believe that these measures will keep women and children safer. There...
