Amidst a string of high-profile attacks on women, police in Australia’s most populous state said on Monday that they had prosecuted and arrested 554 suspects of domestic violence during a four-day investigation.
Some of “the worst domestic violence offenders” in the state, according to New South Wales police, have been apprehended. Among them is a guy who is accused of stamping on a lady, breaking her ribs, injuring her face, and bruising her kidney.
The 28 women who have died violently in Australia this year—one every four days on average—are the subject of the arrests. In the same time frame previous year, just 14 ladies lost their lives in violent incidents.
A number of well-publicized assaults on females, including as the stabbing deaths of five women at a Bondi shopping center, have brought attention to domestic and gender-based violence.
The prime minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, has declared a “national crisis” and announced steps to improve assistance for women escaping abusive relationships and to limit the distribution of deepfake pornography.
According to data from the Australian government, the number of intimate partner homicides has significantly decreased over the previous 30 years.
Furthermore, figures from 2023 show that Australia’s prevalence of domestic violence is still lower than the OECD average and lower than that of the US, UK, and Canada.
However, domestic abuse specialists have long advised that more work needs to be done.
According to Donna Chung, an expert from Curtin University, victims are typically only able to access support after a traumatic event has occurred.
According to her, there are still flaws in the system that allow abusers of domestic violence to continue their offenses.
