Meet the author- Jess Hill

Jess Hill will be in conversation with Hayley Boxall on Jess's new Quarterly Essay On stopping family violence. 

What will it take to stop gendered violence? Australian governments have promised to end gendered violence in a single generation. But this bold commitment to nation building has not yet been matched by the funding, innovation and resources necessary to achieve it. If anything, since governments made that commitment two years ago, gendered violence has only escalated: men are murdering women at an increased rate, coercive control and sexual violence are becoming more complex and severe, and governments are not doing nearly enough to stop perpetrators weaponising technology and systems. Australians have taken to the streets again this year to demand that governments act.

In this urgent essay, Jess Hill investigates Australia's National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children to find out what's working and what's not – and what we can do to turn things around.

Jess Hill is an investigative journalist and the author of See What You Made Me Do and the Quarterly Essay The Reckoning. She has been a producer for ABC Radio and journalist for Background Briefing, and Middle East correspondent for The Global Mail. Her reporting on domestic abuse has won two Walkley awards, an Amnesty International award and three Our Watch awards. See What You Made Me Do won the 2020 Stella Prize and the ABA Booksellers’ Choice Adult Non-Fiction Book of the Year

Dr Hayley Boxall, a criminologist, is Research Fellow in POLIS: The Centre for Social Policy Research in the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences. Hayley has been undertaking research on domestic and family violence (including intimate partner violence) for 13 years. She has published extensively on these topics, and been a primary investigator on a number of projects focused on criminal justice responses to DFV(domestic and family violence) . Prior to joining the ANU, Hayley was the Manager of the Australian Institute of Criminology’s Violence against Women and Children Research Program.

The vote of thanks will be given by Maiy Azize, Deputy Director of Anglicare Australia and Chairperson of Everybody’s Home.

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