Violence against women:

Senator Pauline Hanson sparked outrage when she claimed that some women fabricate accounts of domestic violence in order to get custody of their children  – but what if she’s right? How much objective information do we actually have available on this issue?  

Here, Dr Samara McPhedran, Director of the Homicide Research Unit, and Deputy Director of the Violence Research and Prevention Program, Griffith University takes us through the available evidence, and argues that dismissing contentious claims such as these without a thorough examination can in fact be counter-productive.