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Rio Davis

Domestic violence media coverage protects, excuses perpetrators, Newcastle University researcher says

Vile, harrowing, terrible, horrific — these are the words a seasoned magistrate uses to describe the domestic violence that clogs his courtroom.  

In just one morning in the Warrnambool Magistrates' Court, south-west of Melbourne, Magistrate Franz Holzer presided over half a dozen cases involving domestic violence.

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