About

Lula Dembele is a specialist in gender relations and anti-patriarchal systems change. She’s is a passionate advocate for survivors of childhood sexual abuse, childhood and adult domestic violence. Combining lived experience and professional expertise in strategic policy and gender mainstreaming, Lula is dedicating her efforts to working on systemic and cultural change to prevent and reduce violence against women. In 2018, Lula established the Accountability Matters Project to re-frame domestic violence from being seen as ‘women’s issue’, and to drive collective national efforts to reduce men’s use of sexual, domestic, and family violence. Lula has pioneered work towards undertaking the first national study on the prevalence of perpetration of domestic, family and sexual, gaining investment from PWC to complete a ‘state of the knowledge’ report in 2023 https://research.qut.edu.au/centre-for-justice/wp-content/uploads/sites/304/2023/01/Who-uses-domestic-family-and-sexual-violence-how-and-why-The-State-of-Knowledge-Report-on-Violence-Perpetration-2023.pdf