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Research Article

Reimagining organisational responses to domestic and family violence: applying a feminist ethics of care to the work–violence interface in non-metropolitan Victoria, Australia

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Pages 380-403 | Received 07 Dec 2021, Accepted 11 Oct 2022, Published online: 02 Nov 2022

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