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Vincent Hurley, Lecturer in Criminology (police & policing). School of International Studies, Macquarie University

Australia is responding to domestic violence after the event, not preventing it from happening

Four domestic violence-related deaths in one weekend in New South Wales have reignited questions about what more can be done to protect vulnerable people, two years after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese labelled domestic and gender-based violence a “national crisis”.

Last weekend, four people were killed, including one child, in separate incidents (two children also suffered serious injuries).

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