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The cost of a day in court is more emotionally and financially draining than you might think22/12/2018
... if domestic violence is involved in a family law case, it's common for one party to draw out court proceedings as a means of exercising power and control. Money becomes a weapon where one party tries to drag the case out hoping their partner will give up...
Read the full article here Almost eight times a day on average in the past year someone who was on bail breached a family violence intervention order in Victoria, new police statistics show.
A total of 2806 family violence intervention orders (IVOs) were broken by people who had been released back into the community on bail in the 12 months to September 2018. There were almost 20,000 family violence IVO breaches last year, with the infringement now representing 5 per cent of all criminal incidents that police deal with. Read the full story here The number of women in prison is continuing to soar, new data shows. But advocates warn we can't arrest the increase until we start properly addressing domestic abuse, which affects an overwhelming majority of women behind bars.
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NRL players convicted of serious offences such as sexual assault should be banned for life, the league’s gender advisor, Catharine Lumby, and former team captain, Alan Tongue, says.
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In the 11 days since NZ changed its Family Violence Act, 29 (!!) people have been charged with the new specific criminal offence of strangulation.
Read the full article here. We take our children with us in our hearts everywhere, every day. They are at once the reason we live and the elephant on our shoulders. Their death is unimaginable. Let’s acknowledge Olga Edwards' terrible grief.
But let’s also acknowledge the long-term impacts on women of domestic and family violence. Sarah Wendt, professor in social work at Flinders University, says the results of her research are quite clear. The long-term impacts are physical, mental, social, material. Domestic violence is not an individual catastrophe. Read the full story here.
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1171209795909/domestic-violence-in-australia-facts-and-figures11/12/2018
24-year-old Chloe* thought that because her partner never hit her, he hadn't done anything bad enough to make her leave.
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