I would be hesitant to name and shame all people who have had an AVO taken out on them...men or women...unless they have been convicted of assault in a court of law.

I agree with the conclusion of this author, that we need to work at breaking the cycle of violence through generations of families by giving much more resources to mental health teams and facilities.

I doubt this Government would agree with spending this money though, so AVO's are really the only small amount of protection (if you can call it that) that threatened people can do for themselves.

We have to remember that it is not only victims of domestic violence that use AVO's, but also other community members like neighbors, teachers etc that need them to help alert others to violence threatened against them.

Until we have the proper resources to handle violent people who threaten others, what can frightened people do in the interim to try and keep safe?

The author's conclusion is correct.

On most occasions domestic violence is near impossible to prove, because it's usually done behind closed doors, out of sight, and without direct witnesses to the assaults.

You are a real idiot diver dan with your stupid one liners cause you have nothing of interest to say about. Perhaps you are a really a girl which makes me think why you are a fool with nothing to say.

The journalism profession has been fighting for this for a long time, and rightly so. All other crimes are able to be talked and written about publicly, except crimes of family, intimate and domestic violence. And despite all the loud protesting and well-funded giggle research of male rights groups, victims of these crimes are overwhelmingly women and children.

And let’s face it, guys! Do you HONESTLY think that a professional journalist is going to take any interest at all in some vengeful suburban harpie framing her innocent ex, so she can get the house, the kids and the bank account? I think journalists have better things to do.

Ho ho ho misanthropy: and you ....you are an imposter! Surely nobody could be so stupid, with less to say than diver dan!

Domestic male upon female physical violence, has traditionally been one of the 'hidden' crimes. Only in the past 3 decades or so has the public light been on this domestic violence, and every time it is shined it becomes more obvious the problem is endemic across all sections of society. However, much of society is still in denial.