"Counting dead women and domestic violence in Australia: How did we do in 2016?", Daisy Dumas, The Age, December 30, 2016

As we welcome in the New Year, 2017, it is worth pausing to consider how the Australian community is travelling with regards to family violence and violence against women in general. The statistics are not good. It is heartening that in Victoria, as a result of the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Family Violence handed down in March 2016, we are seeing a coordinated and properly funded approach to responding to and preventing family violence. Perhaps this can be used as a guide for other states to step up to this most challenging of issues in the Australian community. In some states, despite increasing rates of reporting family violence, services have been cut...

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