Podcasts
Addressing gender-based violence, with Prof Kelsey Hegarty
Professor Kelsey Hegarty
Vol 217, Issue 3: 1 August 2022. Professor Kelsey Hegarty is an academic GP and joint Chair of Family Violence Prevention at the University of Melbourne and the Royal Women's Hospital. She leads the NHMRC Safer Families Centre of Research Excellence. Her coauthored narrative review is open access and can be found here. Other resources: 1800 RESPECT ... Personal Safety Survey ... InSight+ article by Kelsey Hegarty ... The Choice: Violence or Poverty by Dr Anne Summers AO. With MJA news and onl...
Dowry abuse in Australia, with Dr Manjula O'Connor
Dr Manjula O'Connor
Vol 216, Issue 1: 17 January 2022. Dr Manjula O'Connor is a consultant psychiatrist and academic at the University of Melbourne. She is also Executive and Founding Director of the AustralAsian Centre for Human Rights and Health (https://www.achrh.org/). She talks about dowry abuse in Australia and the fight for legal protections for survivors, to accompany her MJA Perspective, which is open access at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2022/216/1/health-impacts-dowry-abuse-south-asian-communities-...
Rosie Batty
Rosie Batty
Volume 203, Issue 4 - 17 August. Rosie Batty, the 2015 Australian of the Year and advocate for the victims of family violence, discusses the medical profession's crucial role as supporters of victims. With MJA engagement editor Cate Swannell. Also available as a video here.