I will discuss the ways in which historicising domestic violence has, since 2000, been influenced by a number of political and historiographical developments. Politically, domestic violence has gained increased public attention and there have been a number of government inquiries, notably the Victorian  Royal Commission into Family Violence which reported in 2016, and the introduction of some major government programmes. Historiographically, there are developments pushing towards both more macro and more micro approaches. Recent influences include the growth in transnational, imperial, and comparative settler colonial histories, while the rise in public challenges to secrecy has paved the way for a greater desire to tell individual stories and for a greater use of oral history than was previously possible. There has also been a dramatic rise public and scholarly discussion of the notion of intersectionality, a concept which arose from scholarship on domestic violence and has particular importance for the task of historicising domestic violence in Australia.