Last week, two women and two girls were allegedly murdered in four days. The deaths of Lavanya Chappa, Jana Armstrong, Layla Jeffery, 13, and a 17-year-old Yolngu girl, have been called another crisis point for domestic and family violence.
It has been eight weeks since the last national crisis point: the alleged murder of a woman and two children at a Sydney home. Before that it was the January killings of Sophie Quinn, her unborn baby, her aunt Nerida Quinn and partner John Harris. Every time, there is the same familiar hand-wringing, and often calls for a royal commission.
