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AUSTRALIA - SURVEY ON
NATIONAL ATTITUDES ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
07.04.10
VicHealth
was commissioned by the Commonwealth Government in February 2009 to undertake a
National Survey on Community Attitudes to Violence Against Women. The
Australian Institute of Criminology and The Social Research Centre were key
research partners.
The survey involved approximatley
13,000 men and women from across
The survey establishes a
contemporary baseline upon which to improve our understanding of factors
leading to the formation of community attitudes on violence against women, and
will help to inform the design and implementation of future prevention
interventions that will address violence against women across our communities.
Download
National
Survey on Community Attitudes to Violence Against Women: Project Technical
Report
National Survey on Community Attitudes to Violence Against Women:
Fact sheet
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AUSTRALIA - VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN A
CONTINUING PROBLEM - STUDY
April
7, 2010
AAP
Australia still has a long way to go to abolish violence against women, a new survey reveals.
One in four people think women falsify or exaggerate claims of rape and domestic violence, according to the federally funded survey of more than 10,000 Australians.
And one in five think domestic violence is excusable if the attacker regrets what they have done.
Despite this, 98 per cent or respondents recognise domestic violence is a crime, up from 93 per cent in a similar 1995 survey.
VicHealth, which compiled the results, says despite the wide range of conflicting views, Australian attitudes are changing for the better.
In the 1995 survey one in seven respondents said women who were raped had asked for it, compared to one in 20 in the latest survey.
VicHealth CEO Todd Harper says efforts to improve the safety of women and change community attitudes have begun to pay off.
"However, the sheer numbers of women affected by violence, mostly committed by the men with whom they share their lives, remain horrific," he said in a statement.
"So we must do everything we can to challenge the kind of attitudes, behaviours and practices that allow violence against women to flourish."
Minister for the Status of Women Tanya Plibersek told ABC Radio there were many areas "where we (federal government) need to do a lot of work with the community to really improve attitudes towards violence against women".
Men and younger people were more likely to tolerate domestic assaults on women, the survey showed.
And it predicted that one in three women would be assaulted in their lifetime.
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