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Domestic Violence in Australia is all too common with over 20 people being physically abused by an intimate partner every minute. Domestic Violence is a severe pattern of abusive behaviour that the perpetrator does to seek and harness control over the victim. Domestic Violence does not only just fall into physical violence but can also be mental, emotional, spiritual, sexual and economic which often does more damage than the physical domestic violence. ( Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act 2012)
Domestic Violence is an ongoing behaviour in which multiple occurrences can escalate over time. In situations where the violence occurs between two adults in a relationship, often the more dominant parties are the perpetrators while those who …show more content…

Mental, sexual, physical and reproductive health effects have all been directly linked with domestic violence including, miscarriages, unintended pregnancy, adolescent pregnancy, nutritional deficiencies, neurological disorders, chronic pain, disabilities, PTSD and anxiety as well as non-communicable diseases like cancer hypertension and cardiovascular diseases. Victims of this such violence are also at a higher risk of developing an addiction to things like alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs. (understand-domestic-violence/what-is-domestic-violence/signs-abusive-relationship/, …show more content…

The agency's CEO, Diane Mangan, said six Australian women a month died at the hands of a partner. She has called for other agencies to be able to report high-risk domestic violence cases without consent, to help protect victims. Six months before she died she rang me from the hospital and said she'd been used as a punching bag. ( Rhonda Ziebell, sister) "I think with some of what we know about the lead up to Noelene's death, I think the system really had to have found a way to take it out of her hands," she

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