From the Margins to the Mainstream - 9780522871647

From the Margins to the MainstreamThe Domestic Violence Services Movement in Victoria, Australia, 1974-2016\nAuthor(s): Jacqui Theobald, Suellen Murray, Judith Smart\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Melbourne University Press, Australia\nImprint: Melbourne University Press\nISBN-13: 9780522871647, 978-0522871647\nSynopsis\nIn the aftermath of the 2015 Victorian royal commission, billions of dollars of government funds have been committed to improving responses to women and children experiencing domestic violence. Such attention was unimaginable forty years ago when feminists in Victoria and across Australia first established women's refuges. At that time, domestic violence was not publicly acknowledged or tackled in any coherent way at a Commonwealth or state government policy level. While services that provided accommodation to women and children in crisis had certainly existed for a long time, the refuge movement of the 1970s made explicit the link between domestic violence and the .