Published: 01 November 2023
Legislative Council, Tuesday 31 October 2023
Mr President, I rise on adjournment to speak of an urgent and important matter.
Mr President - five women in Australia have been killed in the last ten days – this is one every two days in Australia.
We know that on average one woman a week is killed by a current or intimate partner – this is one every two days!
We know that tragically, still after years of raising awareness about the devastating toll on women and their families noting that still. In the last six days alone there have been four such deaths we are aware of.
Mr President, organisation Counting Dead Women Australia and the Facebook group Destroy the Joint are a group of people dedicated to campaign for national action on violence against women including researchers who seek to report on all violent deaths of women in Australia.
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