Zahra Al Hilaly, Rosie Batty, Kyllie Cripps, Jess Hill, Julie Inman Grant, moderated by Jamila Rizvi

With rates of domestic and family violence rising exponentially and with increasingly deadly consequences, this expert panel examines the crisis that governments acknowledge but seem powerless to prevent.

Australia is in the midst of what the prime minister designated a ‘national crisis’ of violence against women. Violence is increasing with new forms of abuse such as those enabled by technology, now able to terrorise women and children by stalking, surveilling, and harrassing - from tracking devices in children’s toys to threatening messages embedded in bank transfers - without the abuser even being present.

After decades of decline, rates of partner homicide have soared in the past two years and increasingly family members other than intimate partners are murdering women. This includes white women, migrant and refugee women, disabled women and queer women, with First Nations women are at greatest risk.

Our panellists share their specific expertise, each with horrifying personal stories and chilling professional observations to examine how and why the danger is rising for Australian women and what we need to do about it.