Domestic Violence In Australia Essay

Domestic violence continues to be a dominant issue in Australian media. The real issue of domestic violence appears to be ‘hidden behind closed doors’ where the majority of Australians aren’t aware of the extent of the problem in society as a damaging and detrimental aspect of Australian culture. Cases of domestic violence are only seen in media unless it’s a homicide or murder-suicide case which only represents the ‘physical abuse’ of the violence (where a news article with a headline: “WOMAN KILLED BY FORMER HUSBAND” is more tempting to read on news.com, as another murder case is everyone’s read) not the emotional and psychological effect on the victim. In Australian media, the majority of Domestic violence cases, the victim is the female and the male is responsible for the abuse against the victim,
When we see, hear or read about a domestic violence case, the majority of us respond with “Oh, it’s just domestic violence.’ If it was a terrorist attack, there would be 24-hour news coverage having major headlines across all news articles, but why does this issue have more attention than domestic violence. Australia has been suffering from this issue for many decades and it is time to make a grander change for the good. Are we willingly fighting for the rights of women to be free from abuse or are we unknowingly allowing her former partner to freely continue the abuse? Every minute we use to search for a solution to prevent domestic violence, the more women are dying from the ricocheting slap of the kitchen pan. Society needs to think of a solution immediately and the first step is to make a greater awareness of the problem, before behind our very eyes, it becomes even more incurable than it seems to be. Or maybe it already