Why are men who murder women seen as less of a threat than terrorists?

‘The misogyny is unconscionable, the violence intolerable,’ Van Badham writes Photograph: Anna Gowthorpe/PA

Australia’s domestic, family and sexual violence commissioner, Micaela Cronin, said this week that the scourge of violence against women and children in this country should be treated with the same degree of seriousness as terrorism.

She is right.