Violence In Australia

21 % of Australians believe that domestic violence can be excused if the offender regrets it. In Australia, in 2014, 68 women tragically lost their lives in violent circumstances. These horrific statistics should put any true Australian to shame and anger anyone with a functional moral compass. According to the daily life website, a women's life style website by the same company behind The Age newspaper, Fairfax media, one women is killed by her significant partner almost every week in Australia yet these "crimes of passion" are largely ignored by government and media, more education is needed. State and federal governments are doing something but it is just not enough. In this year alone 66 women have been murdered under the umbrella of domestic violence, In this …show more content…
Over one third of Australian women over the age of 15 will experience some form of domestic violence in their lifetimes. Despite this we rarely hear about domestic violence in the news or media as Australians don't want to know that such things happen. Duncan Chappell, the Chair of National Committee on Violence said "Domestic violence is an issue which many Australians would prefer not to think or talk about. Some would even argue that domestic violence is essentially a private matter of no concern to others - least of all to governments." This is insane, and a disastrous problem. If domestic violence is not talked about, who will know about it? If we as Australians want to solve domestic violence, we need to be vocal about it, Domestic violence is not a private matter. People are killed in incidents of domestic violence far too often. A society which tolerates killing a 6 year old because the matter was “private” is a society that no-one will abide by. Domestic violence is terrible and must be eradicated, but this will not happen overnight, the first step is to be vocal about it. Once we stand with the victims these “crimes of passion will no longer be