Domestic Violence Persuasive Speech
After a long period of ignoring domestic violence, the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, revealed a $100 million package to combat the issue facing Australia. The statistics are now proven that: 2 women are murdered each week this year, another hospitalised every three hours and that a woman in Australia is more likely to be killed in her own home by her male partner than anywhere else or by anyone else. There must be some reason for it. The victim looks for reasons too, which is why it can take them so long to realise that they are being abused. A woman will experience 35 assaults on average before she makes her first complaint. Drugs and alcohol may aggravate the violence, but they definitely don’t cause it in every case. Political action
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Of those, almost 30,000 were serious enough for police to press charges. Victims are reporting more frequently, but women’s services say the actual rate of domestic violence is also increasing, as is the severity of the physical attacks. Despite growing confidence in the police, it’s still a massively under-reported crime: police estimate they only get called out to 40% of cases. When women do leave their partners, they’re jumping into a safety net that’s full of holes. Protection orders have clear benefits. They are relatively easy to obtain, address a range of behaviours beyond physical violence, look beyond incidents to the pattern of behaviour, and can be “tailor-made” to fit the needs of the victim. But protection orders do not work for all victims of domestic violence. The case of Rosie Batty, Australian of the year, reminds us that even when people obtain a protection order, this does not mean that the order will be effective. Many orders are breached, often multiple times, and in this case ended in the tragic death of a child. Breaches have long been seen as one of the weakest links in the effectiveness of protection orders. When a breach is not acted on appropriately, either by the police or the legal system, it undermines the effectiveness of the order, not only for that victim, but the system as a
Of those, almost 30,000 were serious enough for police to press charges. Victims are reporting more frequently, but women’s services say the actual rate of domestic violence is also increasing, as is the severity of the physical attacks. Despite growing confidence in the police, it’s still a massively under-reported crime: police estimate they only get called out to 40% of cases. When women do leave their partners, they’re jumping into a safety net that’s full of holes. Protection orders have clear benefits. They are relatively easy to obtain, address a range of behaviours beyond physical violence, look beyond incidents to the pattern of behaviour, and can be “tailor-made” to fit the needs of the victim. But protection orders do not work for all victims of domestic violence. The case of Rosie Batty, Australian of the year, reminds us that even when people obtain a protection order, this does not mean that the order will be effective. Many orders are breached, often multiple times, and in this case ended in the tragic death of a child. Breaches have long been seen as one of the weakest links in the effectiveness of protection orders. When a breach is not acted on appropriately, either by the police or the legal system, it undermines the effectiveness of the order, not only for that victim, but the system as a