Web resource:	http://www.adfvc.unsw.edu.au/PDF%20files/Newsletter_21.pdf
Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Putting violence against women back into public policy: an update
Other Titles:	Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse newsletter
Authors:	Bradley, Lisa Iyer, Mythiley Brown, Kerry
Keywords:	Advocacy;Policy
Year:	2005
Publisher:	Australian Domestic & Family Violence Clearinghouse, UNSW
Citation:	21, April 2005
Notes:	This article looks at the positioning of violence against women as an issue of public policy at both Federal and State levels, including the perception by feminist commentators and researchers of its decline in recent times as mirroring the overall decline in women’s policy development. In 2002, the Domestic Violence Resource Centre Inc. in Queensland and the School of Management, Queensland University of Technology, commenced a research project to examine the nature and cause of the decline in political focus on violence against women as a public policy issue and the impact of this decline on future policy development. It describes the 2 aspects of the study. The first determines the types of engagement with the state used by violence against women advocates and uses the notion of political opportunity structures that are the points of access and constraints. The second aspect studies the links between feminist activism and advocacy, and the conditions underpinning violence against women as public policy. The research undertook a comparative analysis of Federal Government policy from 1988 to 1996 under a Labor government and then between 1997 to 2001 under a Coalition government. It found a number of differences, such as: fundamental shifts in the way violence against women was represented; strategies for responding to violence changed; changes to institutional arrangements; and the role of women in policy processes. These changes were found to match the effect of increasing neo-liberalism, the rise of political and social conservatism. It found that women’s organisations became service deliverers of policy rather than their previous role as policy advocates.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/16450
ISSN:	1443-7236
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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