Hayley Gleeson

The findings are significant not just because of how much the trial reduced domestic violence, but because only a few years ago it drew fierce criticism from women's advocates and politicians.

For years Rawson Kirkhope tried to outrun his trauma, self-medicating with booze, soaking in the toxic cultures of football and the navy. Now he's turning a struggle he was ashamed of into a recovery story he's proud to share.

Police responses to family violence are too often harming not helping victims, replicating the power and control dynamics that underpin abuse and increasing risk, trauma and feelings of powerlessness, new research has found.

Three years after Victoria Police stood up a new unit to investigate family violence by serving officers, women say they've faced shocking treatment and even criminal charges themselves after gathering the courage to report abuse.

COVID jabs were a resounding success but vaccines now face a growing threat

What about the people who change their career not to scratch some creative or philanthropic itch or make a truckload of money, but out of necessity — because illness or injury derailed or destroyed their ability to work?

A restless period of cancer treatment gave Jess Hill the clarity and courage to finally voice her ideas about why Australia's National Plan for Ending Gender Based Violence is failing.

Long COVID is snuffing out some patients' dreams of having children, and complicating pregnancy and parenthood for those who choose to conceive despite their symptoms and doubts about when or if they will recover.

Thousands of patients caught COVID in NSW public hospitals last year and hundreds died, fuelling concerns among infection control experts that hospitals are not taking strong enough precautions against airborne viruses.

A free online course aims to bust COVID misinformation and teach people how to stop the virus spreading in schools. But perhaps its greatest challenge is engaging people in the first place — particularly those who believe COVID is harmless.