1IN3's submission to the Inquiry into the relationship between domestic, family and sexual violence and suicide
The Federal Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs adopted an inquiry into the relationship between domestic, family and sexual violence (DFSV) and suicide on 28 October 2025, following a referral from the Minister for Social Services, the Hon Tanya Plibersek MP.
The One in Three Campaign’s submission is now available on the inquiry website.
Our submission notes the following:
Half of those who take their own lives and are victims of DFV are male
Males make up a significant proportion of all victims of DFV
Coercive control affects males too
Many males never report their victimisation nor seek help
Government agencies are dominated by gender ideology
There is a lack of support services for male victims and their children.
It concludes as follows:
Until governments, academia and the mainstream media acknowledge the reality that men and boys experience domestic and family violence and coercive control in significant numbers and this violence affects males just as it does females...
Until support services are made available that believe male victims, take them seriously, offer them appropriate support and stop treating them as perpetrators...
Until government-funded research agencies stop actively concealing evidence of male victimisation because it conflicts with their ideological agendas...
Until we send out the message to the Australian community that domestic and family violence can affect anyone – that experiencing it doesn’t make you any less of a man, and that disclosing your experiences is both courageous and masculine...
...male victims of domestic and family violence will continue to take their own lives.