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Women in a relationship experienced coercive control behaviours from their partner in the pandemic (AIHW 2021.)

Women have experienced sexual or physical violence from a man since the age of 15 (2)

Women have experienced sexual harassment since the age of 15 (2)

Off the 2016 ABS personal safety measure, one in 4 women and 1 in 16 men experience intimate partner violence over a lifetime

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are hospitalised 29x more than white women, with most perpetrators being non-Aboriginal. (3,4)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are 11x more likely to die from domestic violence than non-Aboriginal women.

Over a year, women with disability are twice as likely to experience violence than those without disability. Women with disability experience violence at significantly higher rates, more frequently, for longer, in more ways and by more perpetrators compared to women and girls without disability.

Around 28% of male-identifying respondents and 41% of female-identifying respondents reported having been in a relationship where a partner was abusive. Males in same gender relationships are thus more at risk than straight men; with women experiencing simliar rates to straight couples

Trans and gender diverse people are at higher risk for almost all types of violence, including family, domestic and sexual violence in childhood and adulthood. Trans and gender diverse people experience higher rates of DV than cisgender women.