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Social services minister Amanda Rishworth says government ‘needed to work hard’ to fulfil election promiseFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastOnly a handful of the 500 domestic violence support workers promised by the Albanese government have been hired, the social services minister, Amanda Rishworth, has admitted, saying Labor “needed to...

Statistics reveal over 2,000 intimate partner homicides from 1989 to 2021, with three in four victims femaleMore than 60 women have been violently killed this year, many by intimate partners, and experts warn that the holidays are a particularly dangerous time.Counting Dead Women Australia – which is run by Destroy the Joint researchers – tracks “every known death due to violence against women” and...

Calls and contacts to helplines remain higher than pre-pandemic, compounded by cost of living crisisRising numbers of women are experiencing domestic abuse at Christmas, with calls to helplines still higher than pre-pandemic levels due to the cost of living crisis.Refuge, the leading support service in England, said calls and contacts to the national domestic abuse helpline in 2023 were still far higher than pre-pandemic,...