Dr Stanley Korosi introduces The Relational Justice Project™ and asks how parental alienation research can contribute to safer practice, better law and accountable policy. Dr Stanley Korosi will speak at PASG2026, the international conference of the Parental Alienation Study Group, in Perth from 11–13 October 2026. His presentation will … [Read more...]
What should Australia’s next domestic violence plan actually do?
Six practical reforms for safety, evidence and institutional accountability. A government plan to end domestic violence can count services, programs and reports. The more important question is what its interventions produced: These questions are not abstract. The stakes are life and death. The next Action Plan must respond seriously to … [Read more...]
When policy decides what harm it is permitted to see
The latest essay from The Relational Justice Project™ asks a prior question Australia is developing the next phase of the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children. The consultation asks necessary questions about prevention, evidence, children’s safety, institutional capability and the creation of more connected … [Read more...]
The Relational Justice Project: What alienation takes from children
The Relational Justice Project has now reached its third essay:This essay turns directly to the child. Debates about separated families are too often conducted as contests between adults, institutions, ideologies and legal categories. The child is invoked constantly, but not always understood relationally. Family Relationships are Social … [Read more...]
Open Letter to Ministers for Women
The Emergence of Ministers for Men is Not a Threat — It is a Test of Whether Gender Policy can Grow Up The emergence of ministers, envoys and shadow ministers for men should not be treated as a threat to women’s policy or competition for resources. It should be treated as a test of whether Australia’s gender-policy architecture is mature … [Read more...]
Essay: The Child is Still in the Middle: Parental Alienation, Domestic Abuse and the Battle for the Future of Family Policy
A call to the domestic abuse field to accept conceptual parity with parental alienation, and to embrace evidentiary governance and relational ethics in family policy The Child is Still in The Middle This essay is more direct than my recent writing on relational ethics and future families. I have mostly avoided the parental alienation versus … [Read more...]
UPDATE: A Suicide Prevention Blind Spot: Family Relationship Rupture and DFSV
Why the DFSV–Suicide Inquiry Must Widen Its Lens: Supplementary Submission to the Australian House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs By Stan Korosi, PhDDialogue in Growth | Policy and social analysis Australia’s new parliamentary Inquiry into the relationship between domestic, family and sexual … [Read more...]
Parental Alienation: Shaping the Future of Families
—and Policy must catch up Parental alienation (PA) is not just a private family dispute but a structural social phenomenon. It is actively reshaping family relationships, family narratives, and the future configuration of families. How is Parental Alienation a Problem? One parent uses PA behaviours (PABs) to manipulate a child into … [Read more...]
POLICY BRIEF: Rethinking Gendered Models of Family Violence
Why Gendered Theories of Family Violence Are As Contestable—If Not More So—Than Parental Alienation Theory Like many social science presentations, gendered theories of family violence and parental alienation may be considered contested concepts. They both rely fundamentally on the subjectivity of lived experience and assessment of structural … [Read more...]
IPV, Tired and Misleading Tropes From the AIFS
The report on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) released in June 2025, relies on tired, male-gendered tropes that skew its findings and may mislead the public and policymakers. It reports that in 2022, one in three Australian men used IPV, mostly against their female partners or family members. … [Read more...]
