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Key research and international good
practice
Key research references
n Access Economics 2004, The cost of domestic
violence to the Australian economy: part I,
Office for the Status of Women, Canberra
n Australian Bureau of Statistics 2006, Personal
Safety Survey, Australia 2005, reissue, cat. no.
4906.0, ABS, Canberra
n Franzway, S, Zufferey, C & Chung, D 2007,
‘Domestic violence and women’s employment’,
paper presented to Our Work, Our Lives 2007:
National Conference on Women and Industrial
Relations, Adelaide, www.sapo.org.au/pub/
pub12343.html
n Murray, S & Powell, A 2008, Working it out:
domestic violence issues and the workplace,
Issue Paper, Australian Domestic and Family
Violence Clearinghouse, Sydney
n O’Leary-Kelly, A, Reeves, C & Lean, E 2008,
Coming into the light: intimate partner violence
and its effects at work, University of Arkansas,
Fayetteville, Arkansas
n VicHealth 2004, The health costs of violence:
measuring the burden of disease caused by
intimate partner violence, Victorian Health
Promotion Foundation, Melbourne
International examples of
workplace responses to
domestic violence
n Irish Congress Trade Unions, Domestic
violence and the workplace: a guide for
negotiators www.ictu.ie/download/pdf/
domestic_violence.pdf
n Occupational Health and Safety Council of
Ontario, Domestic Violence Doesn’t Stop When
you Go to Work www.osach.ca/products/free_
resource.shtml
n Northern Ireland Department of Health, Social
Services and Public Safety, Developing a
Workplace Policy on Domestic Violence and
Abuse: Guidance for Employers
www.dhsspsni.gov.uk/dv-guidance-foremployers.pdf
n American Corporate Alliance to End Partner
Violence, Workplace Issues www.caepv.org/
getinfo/articles.php?doccat=1
n UNISON UK, Raise the Roof on Domestic
Abuse: Domestic Violence is a Trade Union
Issue www.unison.org.uk/acrobat/12953.pdf
n Workplaces Respond to Domestic and Sexual
Violence (US), National resource centre
www.workplacesrespond.org