Domestic Violence In Australia

Domestic violence is a displayed repetition of violent behaviour in any relationship allowing control and attaining power. Referring to violent acts includes physical, sexual, emotional and physiological abuse. These instances can cause immense social, emotional and economic costs.

The domestic and family violence protection act 2012, identifies that it’s a human right to have a choice to remove yourself from domestic and family violence. People confronted with these issues are familiar with physiological, emotional, and physical harm. It is of the utmost importance in the act of safety and protection of anyone who experience or feel that they are either have occurring incidents of family violence, including infants. When dealing with domestic
this is attainable by potentially recognizing any instance as a criminal offence but in most cases the court applies for a ‘domestic violence order’ in which restricts there behavior. Also allowing instantaneous police responses to domestic issues, along with the right to issue a protection notice. Breaching one of these domestic violence orders can have serious ramifications and to be considered a criminal offence. Since the Since the 1970s there has been considerable change to the law relating to domestic violence in Australia. Recent changes in Queensland government enacted a new legislation with substantial changes to domestic violence laws in Queensland. Occurring on the 28th of February the Queensland government began implementing numerous changes to the domestic violence policy and legislation. The first changes began on October 15th 2015 in the form of the Criminal Law (Domestic Violence)
Key determinants of the underlying general causes of domestic violence are power imbalances, controlling behaviors, and gender inequity. The prevalence of domestic violence and the reports associated are sincerely influenced by society’s attitude towards gender roles, sexuality, domestic violence and sexual assault. A wide variety of strategies have been employed to tackle domestic violence in Australia and internationally. With diverse changes of strategies being prepared and ongoing for decades, lack of evidence still burdens any reliable method of what works. Australia has the lowest rates compared to other countries. The Council of Australian Government’s central initiative designed to address domestic violence is the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children. The National Plan has been received very positively by most stakeholders and commentators, but some argue that ongoing, integrated resourcing and funding across all jurisdictions is crucial in order to effect long-term change. There was a further meeting before parliament discussing the entitled Criminal Law (Domestic Violence) Amendment Bill (No 2) 2015. With allegedly the most momentous proposed amendment containing a bill of the new inclusion including a new offence under the criminal code, unquestionably, additional changes with be made to the current laws surrounding domestic violence if this bill is passed as law.