When Priya arrived in Australia from India, she was totally dependent on her husband and cut off from the rest of the community. A coronial inquest has highlighted how such isolation can make women especially vulnerable.
She'd dawdle on her way home from work knowing the abuse, at the hands of her husband and brother-in-law, with whom they lived, would escalate and she'd be trapped all weekend.
"All women were from the South Asian community and there was evidence of isolation with respect to every single one of them," Mr Howse said."There is the suggestion with respect to some of those deaths that family violence was in the background.""Family violence transcends race, despair and isolation transcend race," Mr Howse said.
She described a combination of family violence, financial control, patriarchal family structures, social isolation, and a lack of understanding of rights as stressors. Psychiatrist Manjula O'Connor mainly works with South Asian women and domestic violence in her practice. She said education about gender relations should be included in settlement programs once they land in Australia.
In a statement, the department said it had already made funding available to a raft of services to "deliver essential mental health supports and practical assistance for CALD communities".
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