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The true picture of Melbourne’s family violence: 2700 arrests in five months
A police blitz in the south-east suburbs has caught 2700 family-violence offenders in five months, as Safe Steps warns more perpetrators are strangling victims.
- by Wendy Tuohy
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Grieving mother vows to stop abusers profiting from victims’ deaths
Julie Adams says her beautiful, feisty daughter died after relentless and emotional, sexual, physical and financial abuse. She wants to stop it happening to others.
- by Claire Ottaviano
Coming to a hospital near you: People to be filmed in bodycam trial
Health Minister Ryan Park, announcing the plan to give security guards body-worn cameras, said the upwards trend in physical attacks was unacceptable.
- by Christopher Harris
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Violence must never be allowed to creep into our national discourse
A recent spate of concerning events involving electorate offices of state or federal MPs should ring alarm bells for those who believe in democratic values.
- The Herald's View
Road rage victim intentionally held against moving vehicle, police allege
Sydney man Bradley Wilkinson has been charged after Rhyce Harding died in an alleged road rage incident in Sydney’s west.
- by Jessica McSweeney, Clare Sibthorpe and Ben Cubby
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We have a problem with sexual assault convictions, but it’s not what you think
There is a widespread misconception that “real” rape involves an attack by a stranger in a darkened park.
- by Jacqueline Maley
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Courts
Sleepy juror leads to overturned conviction for man jailed after bar fight
The Victorian Court of Appeal found the juror’s “somnolent or slumbering condition” was no “minor blemish” on the verdict and that a miscarriage of justice had occurred.
- by David Estcourt
Opinion
Domestic violence
My father’s confession stunned me. In his mind, he was both the punisher and the victim
My father never hit my mother or I, but his temper was forever lurking. Then one day, he explained the reason for it all: “I have been punishing your mother.”
- by Susanne Davies
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Crime
Giving domestic violence the hindsight treatment is one reason women are still getting murdered
If the account of Ariel Bombara is correct, it’s the real-time decisions that deserve a laser focus now, not looking back with hindsight.
- by Gary Adshead
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Study helps explain reticence of sexual assault victims
A new study by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research reinforces the tragic reticence of many victims with police taking no legal action on 85 per cent of reported sexual assaults.
- The Herald's View
‘I’m going to literally kill you’: The texts Maryam Hamka got before she died
Prosecutors allege Toby Loughnane murdered his former girlfriend months after texting her that he was going to cut her head off.
- by David Estcourt