Note: Also see this bibliography on violence against women in immigrant, refugee, and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities.
Key and recent overviews
Blagg, Harry, Nicole Bluett-Boyd, and Emma Williams. (2015). Innovative models in addressing violence against Indigenous women: State of knowledge paper. Sydney: ANROWS.
Carlson, B., Day, M., & Farrelly, T. (2021). What works? Exploring the literature on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander healing programs that respond to family violence. Research report, 01/2021. Sydney: ANROWS ANROWS.
Carlson, B., Day, M., & Farrelly, T. (2024). What works? A qualitative exploration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander healing programs that respond to family violence. Research report, 02/2024. Sydney: ANROWS.
Change the Record. (2021). Pathways to Safety: The case for a dedicated First Nations Women’s National Safety Plan.
Closing the Gap Clearinghouse (AIHW & AIFS) (2016). Family violence prevention programs in Indigenous communities. Resource sheet no. 37. Produced by the Closing the Gap Clearinghouse. Canberra: AIHW & Melbourne: AIFS.
Family Safety Victoria. (2019). Nargneit Birrang: Aboriginal Holistic Healing Framework for Family Violence.
Gallant, D., Andrews, S., Humphreys, C., Diemer, K., Ellis, D., Burton, J., Harrison, W., Briggs, R., Black, C., Bamblett, A., Torres-Carne, S., & McIvor, R. (2017). Aboriginal Men’s Programs Tackling Family Violence: A Scoping Review. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, 20(2), 48-68.
Holder, J., Putt, J., & O’Leary, C. (2017). Advocacy with and for Aboriginal women experiencing domestic and family violence: A practice guide. Sydney, NSW: ANROWS.
Holder, J., Putt, J., & O’Leary, C. (2017). Outreach with and for Aboriginal women experiencing domestic and family violence: a practice guide. Sydney, NSW: ANROWS.
Holder, J., Putt, J., & O’Leary, C. (2017). Safety planning in crisis situations with and for Aboriginal women experiencing domestic and family violence: a practice guide. Sydney, NSW: ANROWS.
Morgan, G., Butler, C., French, R., Creamer, T., Hillan, L., Ruggiero, E., Parsons, J., Prior, G., Idagi, L., Bruce, R., Twist, A., Gray, T., Hostalek, M., Gibson, J., Mitchell, B., Lea, T., Miller, C., Lemson, F., Bogdanek, S., … Cahill, A. (2023). Healing our children and young people: a framework to address the impacts of domestic and family violence. Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety. https://apo.org.au/node/321644
Olsen, A., & Lovett, R. (2016). Existing knowledge, practice and responses to violence against women in Australian Indigenous communities: State of knowledge paper. ANROWS Landscapes, 02/2016.
Our Watch. (2018). Changing the picture, Background paper: Understanding violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. Melbourne, VIC: Our Watch.
Our Watch. (2018). Changing the picture: A national resource to support the prevention of violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and their children. Melbourne, VIC: Our Watch.
Putt, J., Holder, J., & O’Leary, C. (2017). Women’s specialist domestic and family violence services: Their responses and practices with and for Aboriginal women: Final report (ANROWS Horizons, 01/2017). Sydney, NSW: ANROWS.
Putt, J., Holder, J., & O’Leary, C. (2017). Women’s specialist domestic and family violence services: Their responses and practices with and for Aboriginal women: Key findings and future directions (ANROWS Compass, 01/2017). Sydney, NSW: ANROWS.
Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research. (2019). Prevention, early intervention and support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have experienced sexual violence. (Practice paper, February 2019) QCDFVR.
Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC), National Voice for our Children, National Family Violence Prevention Legal Services Forum, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (2017). Strong Families, Safe Kids: family violence response and prevention for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families. Melbourne: Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care.
Urbis. (2022). Aboriginal family violence prevention mapping project: Mapping initiatives delivered 2016 – 2021.
Urbis. (2023). Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention Evidence Review.
Further works
Bluett-Boyd, N. (2005). In search of justice in family violence: Exploring alternative responses in the Victorian Indigenous Australian community. Melbourne: Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service Pty Ltd.
Cox, D., M. Young, and A. Bairnsfather-Scott. (2009). No justice without healing: Australian Aboriginal people and family violence. Australian Feminist Law Journal, Vol 30, 151-161.
Cripps K. (2010). Indigenous family violence: pathways forward. Chapter 11 in Purdie N, Dudgeon P & Walker R (eds). Working together: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and wellbeing principles and practice. Canberra: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.
Cripps, K. (2007). Indigenous Family Violence: From Emergency Measures to Committed Long Term Action, Australian Indigenous Law Review, 11(2), 7-18.
Cripps, K., and M. Adams. (2014). Indigenous family violence: Chapter 23 in: Dudgeon P, Milroy H & Walker R (eds). Working together: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and wellbeing principles and practice 2nd edn. Perth: Telethon Institute for Child Health Research & Canberra: Australian Government Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Viewed 16 September 2016, <http://aboriginal.telethonkids.org.au/kulunga-research-network/working-…>.
Cripps, K., and M. Davis. (2012). Communities working to reduce Indigenous family violence. Research Brief no. 12. Sydney: Indigenous Justice Clearinghouse.
Gibbons, J. L., Skogen, D., & Bogue, A. Using “Our Brave Voice”: A Holistic Family Intervention to Reduce Gender-Based Violence in an Indigenous Guatemalan Community. Violence Against Women, 0(0), 10778012251320582. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012251320582
Gordon, S., Hallahan, K., and Henry, D. (2002) Putting the Picture Together, Inquiry into Response by Government Agencies to Complaints of Family Violence and Child Abuse in Aboriginal Communities. Perth: State Law Publisher.
Hobson, C., Salter, M., & Stephenson, J. (2023). The Contributions of First Nations Voices to the Australian Public Debate over the Criminalisation of Coercive Control. The British Journal of Social Work, 53(8), 3761-3779. doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcad140
Larson, A., and A. Peterson. (2001). Rethinking responses to “domestic violence” in Australian Indigenous communities. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 121-34.
Memmott, Paul, Rachael Stacy, Catherine Chambers, and Catherine Keys. (2001). Violence in Indigenous Communities. Canberra: Crime Prevention Branch, Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department.
New South Wales Aboriginal Child Sexual Assault Taskforce. (2006). Breaking the Silence: Creating the Future. Addressing child sexual assault in Aboriginal communities in NSW. Sydney: New South Wales Government.
Robertson, B. (1999). The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Taskforce on Violence Report. Brisbane: Queensland Government.
Social Compass. (2015). Our Men, Our Healing: Creating Hope, Respect and Reconnection. Evaluation Report.
Watson, N. (2009). The New Protection: Indigenous Women and the Contemporary Australian State. In T Dreher and C Ho (eds.), Beyond the hijab debates: new conversations on gender, race and religion, (pp. 105-117). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Watson, N. (2011). The Northern Territory Emergency Response: Has it Really Improved the Lives of Aboriginal Women and Children? Australian Feminist Law Journal, 35(1), 147-163.
Watson, N. (2011). The Northern Territory Emergency Response: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same. Alberta Law Review, 48(4), 905-918.
Watson, N. (2015). From the Northern Territory Emergency Response to Stronger Futures: Where is the Evidence that Aboriginal Women are Leading Self-Determining Lives? In Rosie Scott, Anita Heiss (eds.), The Intervention: An anthology, (pp. 88-102). Australia: Concerned Australians. (Also: Watson, N. (2014). From the Northern Territory Emergency Response to Stronger Futures - Where is the Evidence that Australian Aboriginal Women are Leading Self-Determining Lives? In Suvendrini Perera, Sherene H. Razack (eds.), At the Limits of Justice: Women of Colour on Terror, (pp. 335-355). Canada: University of Toronto Press.)
Wild, R. and Anderson, P. (2007). Ampe Akelyernemane Meke Mekarle: ‘Little Children are Sacred’, Report of the Northern Territory Government Inquiry into the Protection of Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse. Darwin: Department of the Chief Minister.