As Australia grapples with a domestic violence crisis, experts are pleading for more to be done in regional and rural Australia.
Women outside major cities in Australia are more likely to experience domestic and family violence, according to government data.
When they do, they are more likely to end up in hospital.
A report this month from Australia’s peak body for ending men’s use of family violence found Australia’s response was “highly fragmented,” with uneven distribution of support services.
The report also found just two per cent of men who commit physical and sexual violence to a partner undertake any form of behaviour change intervention.
[Ed: But should money go to men’s behaviour change programs which have not proven to be effective or to providing secure and supported housing enabling women and children to escape abusive men?]