Domestic Violence

Centre Taylan May has parted company with Penrith, bringing to a close a bitter backroom feud between the NRL club and the troubled player.

Courtroom 17 is like any other in the busy Angas Street building, in Adelaide's Victoria Square — here people from all walks of life can be the accused or the victim of family violence. The ABC has been granted access to spend one day in the specialist Family Violence Court.

The Far North Queensland community leader is accused of strangling a woman, and a separate attack that left her requiring emergency surgery, but his lawyer has told a court the case against him is weak.

The first study tracking the murder of children by parents in domestic violence situations is released.

Natasha Stott Despoja begins as royal commissioner into domestic, family and sexual violence in South Australia as the premier reveals about half of all assault reports in the 12 months to April were domestic violence related. 

Cape York mayor Wayne Butcher has been charged with multiple offences including strangulation and grievous bodily harm.

The delayed police response in the lead-up to Sarah Miles' death has become the subject of a critical incident investigation.

A victim of domestic violence shares her story of survival, as lawyers and academics warn governments that rural communities are "drowning in" family abuse cases. 

The family of Sarah Miles, who was allegedly murdered in her home at Casino, northern NSW, have thanked first responders who tried to help the much-loved mother.

NSW Police received a concern for welfare call to a home on Johnston Street, Casino shortly after 1:30am on Saturday, but the call wasn't acknowledged by a radio operator until much later.

Police said officers were called to the scene for a welfare check at around 4:15pm, where they found a woman with life-threatening stab wounds.

Frontline services for domestic violence victims say women in rural areas often fear "if they return home they will be killed"  but there is nowhere safe for them to go. They say more funding is vital to save women's lives. 

Law enforcement agencies say there is precious little regulation preventing an abuser from using tracking devices to stalk and control their partners.

It's "critically important" men look out for their friends and their friends' partners when it comes to domestic and family violence, experts say.

A 42-year-old man is charged with murder after police found the body of a woman at a home in Russell Lea. 

With coercive control set to be criminalised from July, experts from Scotland - a leading country in treating this form of domestic violence - have arrived to help train officers.

The court heard Francesco Dimasi, 92, was bed-ridden and suffering dementia and would not be entering a plea to one count of murder "at all, based on mental fitness".

Officers were called to a home in Russell Lea just after 11am when member of the public reported hearing a woman scream for help.

A spurned lover who abducted, bound and buried his former girlfriend alive in a shallow grave has had his non-parole period for murder extended by more than five years.

Matt feels ashamed when he sees the recent increase in domestic violence-related stories. He recognises he was forming his own dangerous coercive control traits before he voluntarily sought help from a men's behaviour change program.

Donna Thurnell says apprehended violence orders mean "absolutely nothing", and says the system failed her daughter.

A report by the NSW Crime Commission finds tracking devices are now part of standard toolkit for violent organised crime and their widespread use by domestic and family violence offenders is an urgent issue.

The founder of a program designed to help high school students break the cycle of domestic and family violence ensures they are heard in a way she never was.

A 25-year-old man has been charged after a woman was allegedly run down in a suspected domestic violence incident in Perth.

In a jurisdiction with some of the highest reoffending rates in Australia, a rehabilitation service helping former prisoners conquer addiction is being evicted to make way for a new women's prison.