More than one in four Australians needing hospital treatment due to domestic and family violence are Indigenous, a new report has revealed. However, advocates say the figure is not surprising.
More than 29,000 people were hospitalised due to domestic and family violence between 2010–11 and 2018–19Tina* spent five years battling a problem she didn't know existed until she stepped foot into a Canberra hospital.
"That was my wake-up moment. I didn't realise how close I'd been to death when he had choked me unconscious.Support services call for repeat funds to help manage increased rates of family and domestic violence The new data also shows more than two-thirds of people hospitalised were women, and more than one in four identified as being Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander.
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