Why can’t we stop the DV crisis?
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Another string of suspected domestic violence attacks across a single weekend has, once again, seen the number of women and children killed this year climb. And once again, their deaths have turned up the volume of calls for governments to do more to prevent domestic, family and sexual violence. Today, ABC political reporter Claudia Long on why, despite decades of effort, federal and state governments are still struggling with how to stop these tragic outcomes. I'm Melissa Clark, filling in for Sam Hawley on Gadigaland in Sydney. This is ABC News Daily.
What a tragic and horrific weekend of events we've had in relation to domestic violence. I can't remember a weekend like this in my career. It is really overwhelming. Four different incidents, all completely separate, all with tragic outcomes. It just shows that domestic violence doesn't know postcodes, it doesn't know what people do for a living. It can strike anywhere at any time.
Claudia, four alleged domestic violence deaths over one weekend in one state. I mean, w what do we know about the circumstances of these deaths?
Yeah, Mel, it's pretty um it's pretty disturbing, I think, what we've all seen happen and unfold in New South Wales over the weekends.
Over the weekend, two women aged 90 and 23 were fatally stabbed in separate incidents at homes in Sydney and Wagga Wagga, and a 70-year-old woman was found dead at a property in the state's Northern Tablelands region. New South Wales's 48 hours of horror ends with a defenseless child becoming the latest victim of domestic violence.
The police are describing this as the worst that they've ever seen of a weekend of this kind of violence against women and children. There is now pressure mounting on the Premier, Chris Mins, as well over this because You know, and we see this sort of thing a lot when it comes to domestic, family, and sexual violence policy, is there are these peaks and troughs essentially of public pressure, and it looks like we could be going into one of those peaks because of the just the absolute horror that unfolded over the weekend.
We have numerous examples and allegations of individuals who've alleged to have committed horrifying acts against what are often defenseless family members. This is confronting and incredibly violent.
Claudia, the police are urging for a wider community response. They're calling for the government to throw every resource at this.
It's not about police. We're often the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff. There's so many services and other people that need to get involved before it even comes to our attention.
What do you make of their intervention in this?
Mel, I think it shows that Th this is clearly something that the community cares about. The police are really crying out for more resourcing given how many of these incidents they are attending. Now, of course, it's worth noting that the relationship between police and not just I'm not saying the New South Wales police, but police in any state and territory when it comes to domestic and family violence is complex. And that's both because of the history that they have with this area, particularly with um communities that have faced systemic racism, like First Nations communities. And also the present where we've seen inquiries in other states into how police haven't done enough to prevent this issue or have actually made things worse.
And so at the same time, what this speaks to is The urgency that a number of people in positions of power, but also in the community. want this issue to be addressed.
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