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With more than two dozen women dead this year due to gender-based violence, Australians are demanding action when an emergency national cabinet meeting is held this week to discuss a government response.
As new homicide statistics confirm today, the rate of women being killed by their partners is on the rise.
According to the Australian Institute of Criminology, the rate of women killed by their partners in Australia grew by 28% from 2021–22 to 2022–23. Half of the female homicide victims in 2022–23 were killed by a former or current partner.
Emeritus criminal justice professor Rick Sarre looks deeper into the statistics for us today. He notes another concerning figure – one in five homicide victims in 2022–23 identified as First Nations (35 men and 14 women).
Also in new research released today, Asher Flynn and colleagues found 41% of women reported experiencing tech-based sexual harassment at work, compared to 26% of men. Alarmingly one in seven Australians has engaged in the practice.
But perhaps the most troubling finding was that the harassment was often done deliberately to cause harm: more than one in four of those who engaged in it did so to frighten, humiliate or cause distress to the victim.
Meanwhile, in her new memoir, Rosie Batty writes of her “absolute despair” at our failure to protect women and children from gendered violence. It is now ten years since her 11-year-old son Luke was murdered by his father. It’s time for governments to stop talking and start doing, she writes, with guaranteed funding for support and crisis services specialising in family violence, among other measures.
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Justin Bergman
International Affairs Editor
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Rick Sarre, University of South Australia
Half of the women homicide victims in 2022-23 were killed by a former or current partner.
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Asher Flynn, Monash University; Anastasia Powell, RMIT University; Lisa J. Wheildon, Monash University
One in seven Australians say they have engaged in tech-based workplace harassment – and it’s often designed to offend, humiliate and distress the victim.
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Kate Cantrell, University of Southern Queensland
In her new memoir Hope, Rosie Batty reflects on her ‘absolute despair’ at our failure to protect women and children from gendered violence – and the personal toll of becoming an unlikely campaigner.
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Fron Jackson-Webb, The Conversation
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Marco de Jong, Auckland University of Technology; Emma Shortis, RMIT University
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Hannah Lewi, The University of Melbourne; Andrew Saniga, The University of Melbourne
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Peter Burnett, Australian National University
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Politics + Society
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Kara Dadswell, Victoria University; Clare Hanlon; Stefan Sambol, Victoria University
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Natali Pearson, University of Sydney; Martin Polkinghorne, Flinders University; Nia Naelul Hasanah Ridwan, Flinders University; Zainab Tahir, Flinders University
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Tim Ziegler, Museums Victoria Research Institute
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Environment + Energy
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Andrew Blakers, Australian National University
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Brendan C. Walsh, The University of Queensland
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