This chapter looks at how violence against women is about control. Easteal explains that this control is exerted in a variety of ways in addition to physical battery. The chapter also describes the dynamics of abuse and its multi-faceted impact on the victims

The main focus of this chapter is women as targets of their male partner's violence, although some information concerning abuse and neglect of children is provided. Easteal examines the context of violence, its incidence, and why domestic violence is under reported. She discusses the legal...

The Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Act 2005 (Cth) (“WorkChoices”) presented significant changes to the Industrial Relations regime in Australia with new statutory minimum standards in conditions of employment, a shift towards individual based workplace agreements and a complete...

In this article, we identify and discuss individual and organisational factors which contribute to bully victims' or targets' decisions about whether or not to voice complaints about workplace bullying in Australian workplaces. This article examines the costs of voice and silence in workplace...

When we each look at anything or anybody, say violence against women, our perceptions are the outcome of our own individual upbringing and our experiences which for most, are to some degree, weighted heavily by the wider cultural context of dominants' knowledge and language. Credibility and...

Specific problems relating to domestic violence are outlined for children, pregnant women, the elderly, indigenous people and people of non-English speaking background. Individual case studies illustrate the effects of domestic violence on a nine week old baby, an elderly person, an indigenous...

This article seeks to draw conclusions about the potential impact of the Crimes Amendment (Abolition of Defensive Homicide) Act 2014 (Vic). We do so by considering whether defensive homicide served as a safety net in the 2014 case of Director of Public Prosecutions (Vic) v Williams. The article...

In this article, we look at how procedural fairness in workplace investigations into allegations of workplace misconduct may be problematic. Through an analysis of some case law and the survey findings from five experienced investigators, we examine how the process can be flawed by a lack of...

In some occupations, employers impose gendered appearance requirements on their employees. In this paper we present the findings of a small sample of Australian service industry workers subject to such requirements. We analyse these empirical findings to evaluate competing proposals in the...