Domestic Violence In Australia

A recent news article cited statistics that suggest domestic violence is increasing dramatically from year to year in West Australia (Pownall, 2012). In 2011, the police in West Australia responded to 39,297 domestic violence calls. This represents a 12.2% increase from the previous year and a 27.0% increase from 2009. Some of the factors blamed for this year to year increase were population growth, creation of domestic violence awareness campaigns, the economic downturn, and drug and alcohol abuse.

Family violence in Indigenous communities is linked with the Domestic violence policy (Parliament of Australia, 2011). The Current definition used by the Australia government to guide domestic violence policies. Is that domestic violence “refers to acts of violence that occur between people who have, or have had, an intimate relationship” (Chung & Wendt, 2015, p.202). In addition the policy states that violence in a family relationship to be between two people related by blood or marriage. (Department of communities Child Safety and Disability Services, 2012). Thus family violence must have a separate policy to be able to address the accurate impacts of the problem in Indigenous Communities (Larsen & Peterson, 2010).

Australian aboriginal communities have been reported to experience a series of episodes involving an abnormal number of their members being particularly violent. "Indigenous people experience violence (as offenders and victims) at rates that are typically two to five times those experienced by non-Indigenous people and this can be much higher in some remote communities." (Willis) This is certainly disturbing, taking into account that it is obvious that these communities are predisposed to experiencing more violence than non-Aboriginal communities. Indigenous women are apparently even more likely

Women and children are amongst the most vulnerable population who are victims of physical and sexual violence due to lack of resources and adequate community support. Even though, aboriginal health plan includes long-term investments in prevention, promotion and health services, and better access to culturally appropriate health human resources, as well as mental wellness, but still there are

Domestic violence is a major issue with in the Australian society. Domestic violence is defined as a deviant behaviour by a person towards another person in a relevant relationship in any way that controls or dominates another person. (Domestic violence, 2014) ‘The Psychological of Criminal and Antisocial Behaviour’ state that, the primary form of domestic violence is classed as intentional violence. Intentional violence refers to the violent behaviours that are enacted with purpose, its occurs in domestic relationships, where there is a clear imbalance of power. (Mauro. P, 2017)

The population of domestic violence in Australia has allowed some government fund to the community to create many charities and campaigns to raise awareness of its existence to end.

Thousands of women and children in Australia lives are shattered from family and domestic violence, it causes physical and psychological damages. The failure to articulate its long-term effects, has social and economic consequences. The Australian Human Rights Commission have conducted human rights laws to free and protected anyone from a history of family and domestic violence, So nobody inducers physical, emotional and sexual abuse again.

Violence and family abuse is a rooted and serious Australia. It has a significant impact on the lives of men, women and children. Not Known Borders of culture, race or religion. Domestic violence among your Companions, friends and friends of violence between the children of other members of sexual abuse and domestic violence are all different forms of domestic violence. Fortunately, the reduction of domestic violence against women and children bound has been a priority for the Government for many years. Now is the time to move on to the next step, Avanzo solve the problem: Identify for men as well as

Domestic Violence is violent or aggressive behaviour within the home, typically involving the violent abuse of a spouse or a partner.

In 2015, an Australian woman was killed in result of domestic violence by their husband, boyfriend or partner. Domestic violence can impact the victim’s health according to (Kristen 2003), abuse by husbands, boyfriends or partners can be linked to physical health to woman even though their not in an abusive relationship with their partner, it still impacts their health such as; getting anxiety, depression, mental illness. The majority of common injuries to women is by their current or former partner which is domestic violence the injuries that accrue from cuts, bruises and scars (Guth & Pachter 2000). Women have experienced three types of different injuries by their partners

In the article “Stolen Sisters, Second Class Citizens “ is says that “twenty-four percent of Aboriginal women, three times the figure for their non-Aboriginal counterparts (8%), experienced spousal violence from either a current or previous marital or common-law partner in the five-year period prior to the survey.” Also, Aboriginal women are twice as likely to experience abuse than other women. This survey was taken in 2006 which is not too long ago. On the internet, it says that aboriginal people are twice as likely to be victims of repeat crimes and that physical assault is the most the reported violent

Many social issues plague society today, and domestic violence is one of the major issues that society faces daily. Many factors play a role in domestic violence including gender, race, culture, and media. In order to remedy this problem, measures need to be taken to ensure that the problem of domestic violence is fully understood, there needs to be a universal understanding of how people become involved in this kind of situation, and there needs to be information or a process that the public is aware of for how domestic violence can be prevented.

Domestic violence status, in theory, recognised as a “real” crime and it is a form of criminal offences. In NSW the Bureau of Crime and Statistics and Research states that the females as young as fifteen years old go through physical violence. It is also indicated that one out of five women has been sexually abused (Shircore et al. 2017, p. 538). However, the research by the NSW Ombudsman (2006) revealed that the police response toward domestic violence calls which mostly affecting CALD women are deficient. In fact, the lull over domestic violence is culturally ingrained, and only once a situation is considered dangerous are the authorities involved.

Domestic violence is acknowledged as an issue of significant importance throughout Australia, both generally and among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. There are many difficulties to assessing the true extent of the issue but this report presents information currently available in relation to Indigenous Australians. This report includes results and information found from a number of surveys and published research reports and also discusses strategies for improvements of the health and wellbeing among the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities from the perspective from an ecological, holistic and salutogenic approach.

The primary aim of this research article was to examine demographic characteristics and compare the injury circumstances, repeat admission and hospital stay between male and female Indigenous Australians hospitalized due to interpersonal violence in Western Australia from 1990-2004. This population-based, retrospective study utilized records from Western Australia mortality database and the Hospital Morbidity Data System. Records that had the primary diagnosis as an ‘injury’ and external cause as an’ injury inflicted by another’, were not included in the study. The results showed that the demographic information of both genders were the same however, there were higher rates of hospitalization of females at nearly 1.3 times the rate of males. Also, the rate of readmission for interpersonal violence was similarly higher among Indigenous females. The hospital admission rate of Indigenous persons was also higher than that of non-Indigenous persons throughout the 15 years study period with the rate for Indigenous females to non-Indigenous females significantly higher than in males.