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Who is perpetrating domestic, sexual and family violence?

  • Written by Michael Flood, Professor of Sociology, Queensland University of Technology
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Some 1.6 million women (17%) and 548,000 men (6.1%) in Australia aged 15 or older have experienced physical or sexual violence from a current or previous cohabiting partner. This means significant proportions of the population in Australia have perpetrated domestic or sexual violence.

There are no national Australian data on...

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