Talking about domestic violence is the first step towards stopping it

To seen an end to gender-based violence we need to understand what drives it and what barriers prevent us from addressing it, writes Gwen Cherne.

• The Daily Telegraph

Is that why Australia is failing to prevent family and intimate partner violence?

I am a number; so are my children.

We are part of those statistics that get flashed across social media sites and quoted at conferences and in papers regarding the rates of family domestic violence.

Every seven to 10 days in Australia more “numbers are highlighted” as their lives are taken through an act of family and domestic violence.

Many more “numbers…

• Talking about domestic…