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Hmmm i wouldn't be too quick about that if I were you.
To wit (off topic):
Why has Australia declared a ‘national crisis’ over violence against women?
Government pledges action after tens of thousands of people rally over killings of women by their partners.
Campaigners called the weekend rallies following a week in which three women were killed, allegedly by men known to them. This included Molly Ticehurst, a 28-year-old mother who authorities say was murdered by her former boyfriend, weeks after he was granted bail following his detention on charges of raping and stalking her.
In total, some 28 women have been killed this year by their current or former partners and members of their family, according to the campaign group Destroy the Joint.
The figure is almost double the number killed in the same period last year, according to public service broadcaster ABC.
Samantha Bricknell, research manager at the Australian Institute of Criminology, told the ABC that recent data suggested an increase in violence against women, with the rate of women killed by an intimate partner increasing by 31 percent from June 2022 to June 2023. Some 34 such murders took place in that period compared with the same period a year earlier, when 26 women were killed.
Government statistics also show one in four women in Australia have experienced violence by an intimate partner or family member since the age of 15. While a cause for concern, the figure is lower than in countries such as France, the United Kingdom and the United States. In the latter, more than one in three women have reported experiencing physical and sexual violence by an intimate partner.
