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SPRING EDITION 2025
A message from Susan Anderson
Head of 1800RESPECT
I’m pleased to share an update with our colleagues in the domestic, family and sexual violence (DFSV) community.
The expansion of our video call service being available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week was highlighted in the Winter edition of our newsletter. The video call service offers virtual face-to-face support to people experiencing or at risk of experiencing DFSV, and this expansion means even more people across Australia can get support when they need it.
Example of a Google ad raising awareness for 1800RESPECT video call
To spread the word, we’ve been running a digital advertising campaign across Facebook, Google and YouTube. This campaign is reaching a wide audience, targeting people living in regional, rural and remote areas. Our next step is to build on this momentum with regional print advertising, so the message goes even further.
It’s been very encouraging to hear positive feedback about the video call service, and as more people use it, we can reach a broader audience and identify opportunities to support continuous service improvement.
I encourage you to continue to promote both the video call channel and the 1800RESPECT service more broadly, within your networks. You can also visit our website for more information about video call, including resources and guides.
Take care,
Susan Anderson
Head of 1800RESPECT
Campaign
DrinkWise
1800RESPECT has continued working with DrinkWise, Men’s Referral Service and 13YARN to support a campaign for promoting respectful behaviour during the AFL and NRL Finals throughout September and October. The Always Respect, Always DrinkWise campaign reminds fans about the importance of moderating alcohol use and showing respect towards family, friends and the wider community.
Research and Reports
Australian Human Rights Commission: Speaking from Experience: What needs to change to address workplace sexual harassment. This report addresses a gap in what workers from diverse backgrounds think needs to change to make workplaces safer.
RMIT University: Harm in the name of safety. Victorian Family Violence Workers’ Experiences of Family Violence Policing. This report details the findings of the ‘Policing and Family Violence’ survey of frontline family violence workers in Victoria, which asked for practice-based observations of Victoria Police responses to family violence.
Council to Homeless Persons: Bridging the gap between homelessness and family violence services. This report examined how victim survivors of family violence seeking crisis accommodation were repeatedly referred between homelessness and family violence sectors without receiving the service requested, the barriers that contributed to these multiple referrals, and examples of good practice that could be strengthened to support them.
Australian Journal of Social Issues: Mapping Intimate Partner Financial Abuse Across Public and Private Systems. This article maps the ways that intimate partner financial abuse presents, and the range of entities involved in its perpetration.
Australian Catholic University: Family violence and women’s death by suicide: A Victorian Study. The findings of this study aim to advance discussions about the connection between family violence victimisation and women’s death by suicide, and to further conversations about the strengthening of systemic responses to women at risk of suicide.
Media
ABC Audio: Advocates and survivors have welcomed the findings of South Australia's Royal Commission into Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence.
ABC Audio: Domestic violence perpetrators will often abuse animals or threaten abuse as a way to exert control over their victim. South Australia is looking to join other states in defining animal abuse as coercive control, but some advocates say it needs to happen now.
The Guardian: A letter highlights the risks of an abusive partner being able to track your every move are obvious, but location sharing can also serve a protective function.
The Hon Tanya Plibersek MP Media Release: New powers to waive social security debts for victim-survivors of coercive control.
Women’s Agenda: Universities will soon need to take steps to prevent and better respond to sexual violence on their campuses, under a new national code that has been passed into law.
The Conversation: Some victim-survivors take their own lives. We need to better understand how suicide and family violence are linked.
For a copy of our tagline and contact details for media enquiries, please visit the News and Media section of our website.
Key dates
24 – 26 November
Stop Domestic Violence Conference (Come say hi to us at the 1800RESPECT booth)
25 November
If you or someone you know is experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, domestic, family and sexual violence, call 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732, text 0458 737 732 or visit our website for online chat and video call services.
In an emergency, call 000.
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