Domestic and Family Violence Impacts

The Choice Violence or Poverty

How to change a bad law

For far too long, many of the Australian women experiencing domestic violence at the hands of their partner have faced a stark choice: do they stay and risk the violence continuing or even escalating, or leave and face the high probability of a life of ‘policy-induced poverty’?

Meet the women responsible for changing a bad law and improving the life of single parent families across Australia. 

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.