Many thanks to community members who are addressing the dire issues of domestic violence and the manipulations of male behaviour in the manifestations of coercive control contributing to the deaths of women.
The Saturday Paper journal, July 20-26, 2024 reveals an in-depth interview with sex discrimination officer, Anna Cody who backs calls for domestic violence to be treated the same way as terrorism, and says the national plan needs to go further.
She has stated ‘what sort of resources are we putting into anti-terrorism and yet how many women have been killed in comparison to how many people have been killed in terrorist attacks?’ It is noted that the Commonwealth’s new budget spending on women’s safety for the 2024/25 financial year adds up to about $286 million.
Australian Femicide Watch has counted 52 women killed through violence or abuse in the first half of this year. The debate continues.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
