Court-issued domestic violence orders are at a 10-year high in the Hunter and Muswellbrook residents are more than twice as likely to receive an AVO as their city counterparts.
Latest figures from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research show the Local Court issued 1764 domestic AVOs in 2022-23 in the Hunter outside Newcastle and Lake Macquarie, compared with 1888 across the two metropolitan local government areas.
