'We shouldn't put up with it': head of the Family Court says the frequency of violence against women in Australia is a 'national disgrace'.
Family violence is a 'men's issue': Chief Justice of the Family Court calls on men to lead changeWhen Chief Justice Will Alstergren speaks at events focusing on family violence , all he sees in the audience are women.“When you do look, how many men are actually in the audience?”
“We're not finished, we want to keep striving ever higher, because we do have a national crisis in this country,” she said. And the New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen Webb has said the five women who died in a stabbing attack at a Bondi Junction shopping centre last weekend were targeted for their gender.Chief Justice Alstergren said family courts needed to be more responsive, to try and ensure violence doesn’t occur in the first place and prevent lasting damage to survivors, including children, many of whom never recover.
“The people on the frontline will see a lot more and have a better understanding of it than lawyers will, for instance,” he said “Whenever I look ahead to anniversaries, birthdays, Christmases, there's always an empty seat at that table,” he said.He said men have a responsibility to pull up their mates on sexist attitudes and behaviours like “locker room banter”.
“We want to make sure that our young men are having the right education, the right support, to be the men they should be.
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