Jess Hill will be in conversation with Hayley Boxall on Jess’s new Quarterly Essay Losing It Can We Stop Violence Against Women and Children?
What went wrong? Australian governments promised to end violence against women and children in a single generation. Instead it is escalating: men have been murdering women at an increased rate, coercive control and sexual violence is becoming more complex and severe, and we see a marked rise in youth-on-youth sexual assault. Why?
In Losing It, 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. This compassionate, ground-breaking essay lifts the lid on a national crisis.
“Each time a woman or child was murdered, I felt a gnawing sense of urgency. If it’s everybody’s responsibility to prevent violence, where does the buck stop?”
Jess Hill, Losing It
Jess Hill is an investigative journalist, the author of See What You Made Me Do and The Reckoning, and one of Australia’s most recognised and respected thinkers on gendered violence. In addition to her broadcast work – two highly acclaimed docuseries on SBS and a podcast titled The Trap – she has spoken at almost 400 events across the country. Her work has won three Walkley Awards, an Amnesty International Award and the Stella Prize in 2020. In 2023, she was named marie claire Changemaker of the Year and in 2024, the NSW Premier’s Woman of Excellence.
Dr Hayley Boxall, is a criminologist and Research Fellow with POLIS: The Centre for Social Policy Research in the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences. A recognised expert on domestic and family violence, Hayley has provided advice to government on improving responses for victim-survivors, and intervening with men using these behaviours, and delivered training on DFV to both government and non-government practitioners.. 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.