Madonna King: Yet more deaths from domestic violence should be shocking us into action

Our politicians all vowed this violence would end. That was two years ago, writes Madonna King.

Today, police are sifting through ashes of a home, just south of Brisbane, looking for clues in an episode of domestic violence that should shock us all.

A lit match has become the new and brutal weapon in domestic violence cases, and the latest calls for an immediate and national rethink of how we handle, and even report, the issue.