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A woman with a disability has shared her harrowing account of family violence

29/6/2018

 
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Melbourne woman Nicole Lee was trapped with an abusive husband for 10 years who was also her carer. It was only when she ended up in the Emergency Department after an overdose that there was eventually any real intervention.
When asked why she took that overdose, Nicole confided that her husband had raped her four times in the past week.
Read the full story here.

Domestic violence offenders no longer allowed to question abuse victims in Family Court

29/6/2018

 
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Eleanor was told by a judge, just a few weeks earlier, that it was unsafe for her to be within 200 metres of her abuser. Yet a different judge, in the very same court room, then felt it was appropriate for her abuser to be able to directly cross-examine her.

Read the full story here.

THE SHIFTING DEMOGRAPHICS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

26/6/2018

 
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania collaborated with the Philadelphia Police Department to get detailed information on intimate-partner-violence cases. Analyzing 31,206 such incidents from 2013, research shows that current boyfriends or girlfriends are more likely than spouses to engage in certain types of violent behaviour. Furthermore, the authors write in the journal Preventive Medicine, former unmarried partners had the highest odds of stalking their exes, and of violating restraining orders.

read the article here

Nearly a fifth of all Victorian crimes recorded in 2017 related to family violence

18/6/2018

 
Family violence incidents were actually down by 4.5 per cent in 2017, which is great, but it's not great when you consider that the total crime had reduced by 9.6 per cent.

Having said that, the  total number of family violence matters grew from about 63,000 in 2013 to 75,000 in 2017.


​Read the full story here


Court shown Melbourne axe attack footage

12/6/2018

 
A Melbourne man has pleaded guilty to one charge of intentionally causing serious injury to the woman after she was incapacitated, deemed to be an act of gross violence. "He told those present that she deserved the attack.
"He said he deliberately targeted her face to spoil her beauty.
"He said he never wanted to kill her but just make an injury to her face because she thinks beauty is everything."
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mitted he struck his ex's face and head 12 times with an axe to "spoil her beauty" and that he struck her four times to the arms and seven times to the legs with that axe. A piece of axe blade broke off in her leg and an active arterial bleed in her head required immediate surgery. ​


​read the full article here

Psychological Murder: Death By Covert Abuse

12/6/2018

 
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It goes unrecognized but it exists on an extremely covert level. It happens behind the scenes without anyone even being aware of what the problem is; the real problem. No evidence of it is left behind and no-one has ever been convicted of it yet, in reality, what is termed pernicious abuse which can lead a person into carrying out acts such as covert psychological murder, or perhaps even covert psychological manslaughter - something which is very real, insidious in nature but unfortunately unrecognized and virtually unquestioned.

​read the full article here

New report reveals truth about family violence

7/6/2018

 
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The reason for acknowledging the gendered nature of family violence is not to demonise men, to make them feel bad or to say that violence is mostly committed by men. It is simply that we cannot fix a problem unless we identify its source.
There are two main approaches to fixing family violence: services and prevention. Neither of them has a "one size fits all" solution.

​Read the full article here.

DV victim was jailed because she couldn't get to court

6/6/2018

 
It is not unusual for Australian judges or magistrates to issue arrest warrants for people who do not turn up to give important evidence in court. But it is rare for the subject of the arrest warrant to be the alleged victim of domestic violence, where the accused is the alleged perpetrator.

​Read the full article here.

Men perpetrate 80% of relationship violence

1/6/2018

 
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Men killed women in 80% of domestic violence murders in Australia between 2010 and 2014, and about one in three killed a former partner.
A report, published on Thursday by the Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network, found almost half of those homicides of former female partners occurred within three months of the relationship ending. According to the Domestic Violence Prevention Centre, women attempt to leave an abusive relationship on average between five and seven times before successfully and permanently doing so, and the time when a woman leaves her abusive partner is also when she is in most danger of being harmed.


​Read the full story here.

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