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Where to find data on domestic violence


  • At least 23% of women in Australia have experienced domestic or family violence, accounting for 2.2 million women 

Australian Bureau of Statistics, Women’s Safety Australia, 1996

  • National data shows that in 2003-04, 33% (32,700) of the clients accessing a homeless assistance services were women escaping domestic violence
  • In 2003/04, around 1 in 2 women who approached a refuge were turned away 
  • In 2003-04 nationally, 66% (34,700) were children accompanying a female parent or guardian escaping domestic violence into a homeless assistance service 

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Female SAAP Clients Escaping Domestic and Family Violence 2003-04, September 2005

  •  The Access Economics Report in 2004 estimated that in 2002-2003, 263,000 children lived with family violence.

Access Economics - The Cost of Domestic Violence to the Australian Economy

  • Children are the single largest group in the homeless service system.
  • Around 2 in 3 children were turned away from a homeless assistance service.

Julie Oberin, Pamela Foster and Cara Kirkwood, Making Children Count: Children, Violence, Homelessness and the Law, published by WESNET, 2005

 

 

 

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