EVERY week, on average, one Australian woman is killed by a current or former partner.
More than 27,000 domestic violence assaults were reported to police last year in NSW alone, averaging 74 assaults in the state per day, and it’s the reason behind more than 30 per cent of all homicide cases in New South Wales.
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One in three women in Australia has experienced some sort of violence since the age of 15, around 3.91 million, and indigenous women are 35 timesmore likely to be affected.
One in five Australian women has been stalked.
It’s an issue estimated to cost the Australian economy $14.4 billion per annum, and it’s the leading contributor to death, disability and ill-health in Australian women aged 15-44.
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/the-numbers-that-will-shock-you-to-tears/story-...I find the ignoring of the female mass murders occurring in Australia more appalling.