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ACCIARITO, Carmella

Oct 8, 2026 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Justice \ Law \ Crime

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A Comprehensive Guide for Family Violence Practitioners

 

Applications, Legal Analysis and Case Studies

This practical textbook examines the significant reforms introduced through the Family Violence Protection Act 2008 (VIC) and the Justice Legislation Amendment (Family Violence, Stalking and Other Matters) Act 2026 (VIC).

Written by leading family violence lawyer Carmella Acciarito, the book provides clear legislative analysis, practical guidance, and 50 case studies exploring key issues including coercive control, systems abuse, stalking, misidentification, and risk-based practice. It demonstrates how the 2026 reforms strengthen victim-survivor safety, accountability, police powers, court processes, evidentiary requirements, and legal practice.

Combining legal expertise with real-world courtroom experience, this essential resource is designed for legal practitioners, judicial officers, law enforcement, academics, students, policymakers, and service providers seeking to navigate Victoria’s family violence system with confidence under the new legislative framework.

About the Author

 

Ms Carmella (Acciarito) is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court and High Court of Australia. As a Vifctorian registered legal practitioner she is the Founder, Director and Principal Lawyer of DFV Lawyers – Domestic and Family Violence Law Firm, Victoria and Australia’s first trauma informed Domestic and Family Violence Law Firm with extensive experience in domestic and family violence matters and their related criminal law matters. She practises across Metropolitan and Regional Magistrates Courts of Victoria, with a particular focus on Family Violence Intervention Order Applications, contest proceedings, family violence related assault, stalking prosecutions, acting on behalf of Applicants, Protected Persons and Respondents including representations concerning vulnerable Applicants and Respondents including children and persons with cognitive impairments.

Ms Carmella has worked with community legal centres, specialist family violence services, Victoria Police- Police Prosecutions and private clients on domestic and family violence matters arising under the Family Violence Protection Act 2008 (Vic), the Justice Legislation Amendment (Family Violence, Stalking and other Matters) Act (Vic) 2026, The most recent strangulation-specific reform in Victoria is Crimes Amendment( Non-Fatal Strangulation) Act 2024, Crimes Act 1958, and the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management Framework. Her work is informed by a sustained commitment to access to the principles of justice, fairness and equity and the safety and protection of victim-survivors of family violence, experiencing coercive control and to victim rights arising from misidentification and systems abuse.

This guide reflects Ms Carmella’s direct client and courtroom experiences, the challenges all family violence practitioners face when navigating complex, multi-jurisdictional family violence matters, and her commitment to providing clear, practical, and principled guidance to the profession.

This comprehensive guide is an essential resource for professionals across the criminal justice system, legal practitioners, family violence practitioners, law enforcement, family violence practitioners, system services, and the broader education and community sectors who work with, or respond to, domestic and family violence. It provides the legal, procedural, and practical foundations required to understand the existing legislation and its 2026 reforms, apply them confidently in practice, and strengthen safety outcomes for victim survivors.

CRIBB, Janet

Jul 9, 2026 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Justice \ Law \ Crime

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The Route to your Will

 

A Laypersons Guide to understanding a Legal Will

The guidebook for anyone making Janet Cribb their Will or thinking about it.

Through her career as a Specialist Willwriter, Janet Cribb found that many clients had the same questions when it came to getting their Will written, and that there is a vastness of misunderstanding and misinformation out there about Wills. The Route to your Will: A Laypersons Guide to understanding a Legal Will is here to clear the way and put some of these to rest.

While not a DIY handbook, this book simply answers the questions people often ask—and a few they don’t know to think about. You’ll be guided on how to get from A to B: from having no Will at all (or an out-ofdate one), to signing a new Will that makes things easier for your friends and family when you are gone, ensuring your wishes are heard and set in motion.

Learn how to ask the right questions of the right person at the right time, iron out the bumps and bends in the road, and get smoothly from A to B: a completed Will, signed and witnessed.

All comments and information found in this book are general in nature, and every country differs in their legal approach. The author advises all readers to make sure they find the relevant answers for their country from the mountain of information available on the internet, or to go and see someone who knows their stuff .

TOOHEY, Brian

Jun 26, 2026 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Justice \ Law \ Crime, Social Sciences \ Politics \ Government

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50 Years Before the Mastheads

 

My published and unpublished stories on politics, corruption, defence, journalism and secrecy

Malcolm Fraser wanted ASIO to tap his phone. Bob Hawke took him to the High Court. The Senate privileges committee held him in contempt. And former foreign minister Gareth Evans wanted him jailed.

There are few journalists in Australian history who have published as many leaks and so enraged governments in the process as former National Times editor and Australian Financial Review correspondent Brian Toohey.

50 Years Before the Mastheads is a selection of Toohey’s articles since the 1970s covering corruption, the US alliance, national security and intelligence, secrecy, and economic reform

It includes previously unpublished articles on the US government’s deep involvement in the dismissal of the Whitlam government, and the businessmen who supplied Bob Hawke with prostitutes. Toohey also recounts stories from his foreign travels of the misadventures of an Australian government official and young female staffer, and the time Lady Mary Fairfax expected him to swap his hotel room for her hut in the hotel grounds.

About the Author

 

Brian Toohey was born in Queensland 1944 and has worked as a political staffer and journalist.

In 1973 he left the Whitlam government to work as political correspondent for the Australian Financial Review in Canberra before becoming the paper’s Washington correspondent in 1979 and editor of The National Times in 1982.

He founded The Eye magazine in 1987 and was later a columnist for the AFR for decades.He has also written for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Nikkei Asia Review, The West Australian, The Sunday Age, Inside Story, The Monthly, The Saturday Paper and other publications. He is the author or co-author of five books.

He has written extensively about national security, politics, economics, corruption and secrecy.In 1999 he received a Walkley Award for Journalistic leadership.

DALY, Neil

Mar 17, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Fiction \ Novel, Justice \ Law \ Crime, Mystery Fiction, Thriller Fiction, Victoria

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Your Sins Will Seek You Out

A Novel Based On True Events

Barry Keating’s cunning and violent nature manifested from his first childhood contact with other children.

John and Ruth Keating adopted Barry from birth.

John Keating, a community person, is also a career policeperson involved in numerous crime and traffic incidents as he advanced through the ranks. His involvement with the public and criminals outlines his quick reactions to planning and delegating. Undiagnosed PTSD haunts him throughout his career and his life.

Barry’s violent responses are often easily given; he rarely takes them.

His continuance with violence against both men and women maintains his rage while committing terrible crimes. Even after finding love and domestic commitment, his urges cannot be denied, and they take control.

Follow these real-life events, where only the names and locations are changed.

A, Inspector

Feb 10, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, History, Justice \ Law \ Crime, Memoir, Military, Queensland, Social Sciences \ Politics \ Government

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The Syria Scam

 

An insider look into Chemical Weapons, Geopolitics and the Fog of War.

Something horrid happened in the city of Douma in Syria on 7 April 2018. It was alleged to be an attack with banned chemical weapons, said to have killed more than forty terrifi ed civilians. The US, UK and France responded with punitive missiles and airstrikes.

But what did actually happen? And how does this relate to the other alleged chemical attacks by the Syrian regime?

Inspector A takes us on a journey through his investigations and travels in Syria during the conflict, and the political intrigue that has
caused bitter divisions among Member States at the UN and the OPCW, the world’s chemical weapons watchdog.

About the Author

 

Inspector A joined the UN-affiliated Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in the first group of inspectors in 1997.

A chemical engineer with military experience, he soon became a foremost Inspection Team Leader conducting inspections around the world. He left in 2005 to continue a career in the chemical industry.

He joined the OPCW again in 2016 as part of the “rehire” scheme, aimed at bringing back experienced inspectors. He soon saw signs of the Syrian chemical weapons narrative being politicised. Inspectors started objecting but got nowhere.

Along with his UN passport, Inspector A has cheerfully carried British, South African and Australian passports. He wishes people would be honest and do the right thing, even in geopolitics. He knows this is naïve, nonetheless tried in two UN Security Council meetings to get his story across. He failed, gave up and wrote this book.

RAMANATHAPILLAI, Rajmohan

Feb 3, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Justice \ Law \ Crime, Photography, Poetry, Social Sciences \ Politics \ Government, Victoria

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Turtles Without a Sandy Beach

 

Hope of Sri Lankan Tamil Survivors

The book records the memories of Sri Lankan Tamil survivors who lived through war for over three decades. By creating a three-dimensional presentation, this book provides a dignified healing space for hallowing the memories of those survivors.

First, it uses poetry to capture human rights violations and unspeakable memories.

Second, each poem in this collection tells a story inspired by actual events without fully revealing the graphic nature of life in war. The book creates a healing space for those memories through nature photography.

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About the Author

 

Dr. Rajmohan Ramanathapillai is a native of Sri Lanka who grew up through civil unrest to become a human rights advocate, poet, and photographer.

With a master’s in Religious Studies and a PhD in Philosophy from McMaster University, Canada, Dr. Rajmohan taught philosophy,
peace, and human rights across the world. He has successfully directed programs aimed to promote peace, including the “Culture of Peace” program for the children of Tamil refugees and the Tamil Diaspora community in Toronto, and the “Kindness is Contagious” program for African American children.

Since moving to Australia, Dr. Rajmohan has completed a master’s in counseling from Monash University and worked as a trauma counselor, providing trauma therapy for torture and trauma survivors of asylum seekers and refugees around the world. Now, he serves as a Family Violence Therapeutic specialist supporting women and children.

Dr. Rajmohan hopes that his poetry collection, Turtles Without a Sandy Beach, will educate and inspire us all on matters of human rights and survival.