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15 Apr 05:35am

Filed under: Domestic Violence, Refuge, Society, Women

‘Violence against women’ are three particularly distressing words. Words that should never go together. I’d like to think we all agree.

In the kitchen at Elsie, Glebe, 1974. It was Australia's first women shelter.

Turns out, maybe not.

A recent study indicates that, “one in four people think women falsify or exaggerate claims of rape and domestic violence”. That’s too many people blaming the victims for my liking.

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WestOt says:

09:40pm | 06/05/10

I am a female who has been abused by my (now ex) husband for many years. He called the police and had a DVO taken out against me. I couldn’t afford to contest it. After this happened, I was too frightened to defend myself for a long time because he… Read more »
Dr Gaye Barr says:

11:23am | 20/04/10

Victor, I absolutely agree with you and have the utmost sympathy for anybody who falls victim to false allegations. It is a terrible slight on anybody’s character and there is little (if any) right of reply. People who lie about their status or culpability in incidents of domestic violence should… Read more »

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