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Domestic Violence, Family Violence and Women's Safety

  The World Health Organisation defines violence against women as  “ Any act   which could result in physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty whether occurring in public or private life.“ Intimate partner violence refers to behaviour by an intimate partner or ex-partner that causes physical, sexual or psychological harm, including physical aggression, sexual coercion, psychological abuse and controlling behaviours. Sexual violence is "any sexual act, attempt to obtain a sexual act, or other act directed against a person’s sexuality using coercion, by any person regardless of their relationship to the victim, in any setting. It includes rape, defined as the physically forced or otherwise coerced penetration of the vulva or anus with a penis, other body part or object."   If America’s shame is the number of school children killed by gun violence, then Australia’s shame is the number of women