The latest crime figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics paint a sobering picture for the Northern Territory, with the number of family and domestic violence victims growing for the third year in a row.
The Northern Territory has experienced another jump in domestic violence cases, with those on the frontline warning it will take a "lot of work" to turn the situation around.Organisations say the cause of these increases don't capture the full storyNew data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows there were 5733 victims of family and domestic violence in the territory in 2021 — growing by more than 2000 cases in three years.
Nine out of 10 victims of sexual assault were women, and 38 per cent of victims were under the age of 18.her centre had to turn away at least 20 women last week, because they were already too full. "There's a lot of lost people out there and to get it back to how it was years ago is going to be a lot of work," Ms Bennett said.
"In Katherine, a lot of those options are so severely limited. We only have the one crisis centre and it's often at capacity," she said.
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