Domestic violence commissioner calls national roundtable to assess number of women's deaths, says conversation is shifting
ABCThere is a crisis in Australia. That's 50 per cent of the population in this country," federal Minister for Women Katy Gallagher said on Wednesday morning after the 26th woman died in a gender-based violence situation in Australia this year. The nation's chief lawmaker has asked men to step up to stop women dying every week in a "crisis of male violence". Last week, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus gave an address at a sexual violence symposium and said there needed to be a "fundamental shift in acknowledgement that" overwhelmingly, violence against women in Australia was perpetrated by men. They include: Men holding other men accountable for unacceptable behaviour Men taking personal accountability Community accountability, not tolerating violence and abuse of women Changes at a national structural level looking at Australian systems The commissioner pointed to the federal inquiry into the country's judicial responses to sexual violence as something that would provide changes on a structural level, but did not call for the same for domestic violence.
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