Contemporary Australian research

A collection of the growing and leading body of research and academic work being produced within Australia.

2026

• The 8th Australian Survey of Secondary Students and Sexual Health

• The Australian Trans and Gender Diverse Sexual Health Survey

• Health inequities faced by sex workers - The Lancet Public Health

• Intersecting stigma as a fundamental barrier to the health and wellbeing of sex workers - The Lancet Public Health

• Violence prevention and support interventions for sex workers - The Lancet Public Health

• Towards occupational health and safety in sex work - The Lancet Public Health

• State of gender equality in Victoria's public sector 2026

• The absence of heteronormativity and the erasure of heterosexuality in FDSV policy

• Mental health impacts of anti-trans stigma on transgender people in Australia: a mixed-methods study

• Work participation disparities among LGBTQ+ Australians: Insights from a nationally representative cohort study

• Queering Ethics of Care in Sexual and Family Violence Research with LGBTQA + Victim-Survivors

• LGBTQ+ Homelessness and Sexual Violence 

• Sexuality education in an age of resistance: Reflections at the nexus of education, health and rights

• Sexual Violence and Mental Health Among a National Australian Sample of Bisexual and Pansexual Cisgender Women 

• Bystander Intervention & LGBTQ+ Sexual Violence: Findings from two Exploratory Surveys with NSW-Based LGBTQ+ Communities

• From Deficit to Queer and Strengths-Based Approaches to Sexual Violence Research and Prevention

• Navigating Liminality in LGBTQ+ Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence Service Delivery: How Practitioner Experiences Can Inform Research

• Primary prevention of sexual violence in First Nations LGBTIQA+SB Communities - A literature review

• Our Voices, Our Ways - Primary Prevention of Sexual Violence in First Nations LGBTIQA+SB Communities, A discussion paper in response to the national literature review

• Stigma, Discrimination and the Weaponisation of Survival: Women's experiences of the intersection between the child protection and criminal legal systems

2025

• “Humiliated and Ashamed, Again and Again”: Regulating Genital Examinations of Children with Innate Variations of Sex Characteristics

• “The Missing Voice Report: a thematic analysis and stories of ongoing medical interventions on intersex children in Australia”

• Queer Women's Substance Use Over Time (QSOX)

• Reconsidering Violence Against Women through the History of a Refuge for Trans Women

• Roberta Perkins: Sex Work, Feminism, and the Dawn of Transgender Activism in 1980s Australia

• The presence and absence of gender and intersectionality in the 2023 NDIS review: a content analysis

• National LGBTIQA+ Prevention of Sexual Violence Pilot Projects final report

• Prevalence of Diverse Genders and Sexualities in Australia and Associations With Five Forms of Child Maltreatment and Multi-type Maltreatment

• Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey (HILDA) Statistical Report 2025

• Prevalence of Sexual Strangulation/Choking Among Australian 18-35 Year-Olds

• Chapter: Proving It Is the Problem - Ice Cold Cases, Hot Button Issues, and Justice Seeking for Historical Homicides Against Gay Men and Transgender Women

• LGBTQ+ Adult Sexual Violence Critical Scoping Review: Victimization Risk Factors

• Prevalence and perpetration contexts of sexual violence among cisgender LGBQ+ adults in Australia

• LGBTQ+ Adult Sexual Violence Critical Scoping Review: Insights into Victimization and Perpetration

• Disclosure and Help-Seeking Following Sexual Violence Among Bi+ Women: A Scoping Review

• Affective Barriers to Accessing Professionalized Intimate Partner Violence Services Among LGBTQ People in Australia

• Solidarity with IPV Perpetrators as a Challenge to Help-Seeking for LGBTQ + Victim-Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence

• Anti-Queer Violence in Australia: An Intersectional Analysis of Victimization Among LGBTQA+ Adults

• Experiences of Intimate-Partner Violence and Violence from a Family Member During COVID-19 Among LGBTQ Adults in Australia

• Implementation and formative evaluation of a peer-led chemsex intervention targeting sexualised crystal methamphetamine and GHB use: the M3THOD study

• Exploring experiences of talk therapies among gay and bisexual men seeking to reduce or abstain from using crystal methamphetamine in the context of chemsex

• Drinking, risk, and care: a narcofeminist analysis of lesbian, bisexual, and queer women’s alcohol consumption and safety practices in Australia

• Defying Distance: Practitioner Perspectives on the Impact of Telehealth on LGBTIQ + Family Violence Service Access in Regional Australia

•  “We’re not for You”: Primary Care Support Seeking Among LGBTIQA + Individuals Experiencing Intimate-Partner Violence in Western Australia

• Adolescent Man Box : Findings from a survey with Australian adolescents aged 14-18 years

• Building an integrated support system for young people’s sexual health and wellbeing: Strengths, challenges and future directions for the non-government sector

• Young adult perspectives on sexuality education in Australia: implications for sexual violence primary prevention

• Beyond "The Talk" - Supporting parents and carers to speak with children about sex, relationships and consent

• “For Sustained Change, We Need Everyone on Board”: Australian Outsourced Provider Perspectives on Relationships and Sexuality Education for Young People

• Practitioners’ Tight and Loose Strategies to Engage Users of Intimate-Partner Violence in Services for Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer (GBTQ) Men

• Delineating the Distribution and Impact of Homelessness Among a Large Sample of LGBTQ + People in Australia

• Being safe and valued: Creating equitable workplaces for LBTQIA+ Victorians - Literature review

• Survey summary report: LGBTQIA_ Victorians Experience of Gendered Violence at Work  

• Que(e)ry-ing the nexus of vulnerabilities: the sensitive nature of research into LGBTQ+ and CALD survivor experiences of intimate partner violence

• The NSW Special Commission of Inquiry into LGBTIQ hate crimes (1970–2010) and police accountability

• Refuge to Recovery for LGBTIQ+ People: Final evaluation report

2024

• National Survey of LGBTIQA+SB Experiences of Sexual Violence

• The relationship between suicidality and LGBTQ+ Experiences of Sexual Violence

• Being both: the intersectional experiences of being an LGBTQ+ victim-survivor of sexual violence with disability

• TRANSforming Inclusion Practices: Trans People’s Experiences of Sexual Violence

• Our Community is our Strength: First Nations LGBTQSB+ experiences of sexual violence and reporting

• #SpeakingOut@Work: Sexual harassment of LGBTQ young people in the workplace and workplace training 

• It is “Part of this Larger Tapestry of Anti-queer Experiences”: LGBTQ+ Australians’ Experiences of Street Harassment

• Evidence to Act: LGBTIQ-Inclusive Family Violence Service Provision in Australia and the Politicisation of Data Gaps

• On the Structural Conditions Shaping Implementation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ)-Inclusive Practices Within Intimate Partner Services in Australia

• Catalysts of Change: Interventions and service pathways for gay, bisexual, trans and queer (GBTQ) men who have used family violence in Victoria, Australia

• Informed, Affirming and Focused: Client Perspectives on the Importance of Specialist LGBTIQ + Family Violence and Other Health Services

• Beyond Bricks & Bars: Trans decarceration project, Evaluation Report

2023

• Indigenous LGBTIQSB + People’s Experiences of Family Violence in Australia

• LGBTQ Victim-Survivors' Experiences and Negotiations of Service Worker and Service System Discrimination

• Experiences of Reporting Family Violence Among LGBTQ + Adults in Australia: Findings from the Private Lives 3 National Survey

• Preferences for Types of Inclusive Family Violence Services Among LGBTQ People in Australia

• Factors associated with experiences of abuse among lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and asexual (LGBTQA+) adults with disability in Australia

• Barriers stopping LGBTI people from accessing LGBTI police liaison officers: analysing interviews with community and police

• Chapter: Policing Transgender People

• Demographic predictors of experiences of homelessness among lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, gender-diverse and queer-identifying (LGBTIQ) young people in Australia

• Family Violence Within LGBTQ Communities in Australia: Intersectional Experiences and Associations with Mental Health Outcomes

• Rainbow Realities: In-depth analyses of large-scale LGBTQA+ health and wellbeing data in Australia

• Attitudes Matter: The 2021 National Community Attitudes Towards Violence Against Women Survey (NCAS)

• Victorian Commission for Gender Equality in the Public Sector – Intersectionality at work: building a baseline on compounded gender inequality in the Victorian public sector

• 'You can’t just … add a bit of rainbow dust': A review of the Clear Space online behaviour change program for GBTQ+ men and non-binary people

• Associations between school-based relationships and sexuality education and young people’s sexual experiences

2022

• LGBTQ+ People's Experiences and Perceptions of Sexual Violence

• Opening Doors: Ensuring LGBTIQ-inclusive family, domestic and sexual violence services research report

• Time for respect: Fifth national survey sexual harassment workplaces | Australian Human Rights Commission

• Naming and Recognition of Intimate Partner Violence and Family of Origin Violence Among LGBTQ Communities in Australia

• Harm in the Name of Safety: Victorian Family Violence Workers' Experiences of Family Violence Policing

• La Trobe University submission to the Disability Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability

• Responsive pandemic practice: LGBTIQ+ family violence service innovation in Victoria during COVID-19

• A life course approach to determining the prevalence and impact of sexual violence in Australia: Findings from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health

• Police prosecutors and LGBTIQ intimate partner violence, victims, and perpetrators: an empirical study

• “Being Diverse and Being Included, Don’t Go Together in Policing”—Diversity, Inclusion, and Australian Constables

• Information-seeking behaviours in Australian sexual minority men engaged in chemsex

• HIV, chemsex, and the need for harm-reduction interventions to support gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men

• Researching Sexual Violence with Trans Women of Color in Australia

• Comparative perceptions: how female officers in two Australian police organizations view policing of diverse people

• Sex in placemaking activism: lesbians’ and queer women’s sex-based sociality in Sydney, Australia

• Policing Minority Communities: How Perception of Engagement and Level of “Awareness” Influence Officer Attitudes toward Practice

• Safe Connection Toowoomba: Connecting and Supporting LGBTQIA+ Communities

  
  

2021

• 2021 National Student Safety Survey

• Support Provided by LGBTI Police Liaison Services: An Analysis of a Survey of LGBTIQ People in Australia

• Chapter: Targeted Violence

• Building an Intersectional and Trans-Inclusive Criminology: Responding to the Emergence of “Gender Critical” Perspectives in Feminist Criminology

• Trans Women’s Responses to Sexual Violence: Vigilance, Resilience, and Need for Support

• ‘Scene’ as a critical framing device: Extending analysis of chemsex cultures

• Eggs, O’Wheels, hexagons, repairs: lesbian feminist Utopias in Australia, 1970s–1980s 

• Priorities and practices of risk reduction among gay and bisexual men in Australia who use crystal methamphetamine for sex

• Chapter: Case Study - Policing Sexualities

• Chapter: LGBQ People and Social Justice

• Chapter: Queer Cops in Queensland - Exploring LGBT Narrative Histories in the Queensland Police Service

• Chapter: Saving schools from abomination and abnormal sex: a discourse analysis of online public commentary about ‘queering’ school spaces

• Respectful relationships education in schools: Evidence paper

• New Parents, New Possibilities: Family Violence Prevention for LGBTIQ+ parented families

2020

• Developing LGBTQ programs for perpetrators and victims/survivors of domestic and family violence

• Crossing the line: Lived experience of sexual violence among trans women of colour from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds in Australia.

• Rainbow Health Australia: Pride in Prevention Evidence Guide

• Advancing LGBTQ+ Safety and Inclusion: Understanding the Lived Experiences and Health Needs of Sexuality and Gender Diverse People in Greater Western Sydney

• Reporting on sexual violence ‘inside the closet’: Masculinity, homosexuality and #MeToo

• “You’d Just Cop Flak From Every Other Dickhead Under the Sun”: Navigating the Tensions of (In)visibility and Hypervisibility in LGBTI Police Liaison Programs in Three Australian States

• Queering Police Administration: How Policing Administration Complicates LGBTIQ-Police Relations

• Chapter: Policing Transgender People and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)

• Police recruit perception of transgender officers: inclusion, diversity and transgender people

• Compensating for Sexual Identity: How LGB and Heterosexual Australian Police Officers Perceive Policing of LGBTIQ+ People

• Destabilising the ‘problem’ of chemsex: Diversity in settings, relations and practices revealed in Australian gay and bisexual men's crystal methamphetamine use

2019

• The lesbian presence in feminist, gay and queer social movements in Australia, 1970s-1990s.

• Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Men’s Attitudes and Understandings of Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Assault

2018

• ‘The New Lesbian Sexual Revolution’: Lesbian Sex Radicals in Sydney during the 1980s and 1990s

• Transgender Domestic Violence: An Analysis of the Transgender Community and Service Provision in Queensland.

• Made wrong, excluded, and ignored: Introduction to a special issue on lesbians and the law

• Queering policing: what is best practice with LGBTQ communities?