Family Violence Royal Commission started in Melbourne on Monday July 13, lasting 4 weeks.
ABC television journalist (tweet: @damn43) states: 70,000 complaints to police last year in Victoria alone.
What's going to happen is many selected working class people will tell their stories; government selected psychology professionals will tell their stories and analysts theories based on government education's psychological books prescribed diagnoses.
By having a “hearing”, labelling the hearing “royal commission”, to aid some appearance of an “independent authority from government influence”, means nothing to me. Documentary histories of royal behaviours have shown royalty as less than honest.

School's year 10 and 12 Gold Coast celebrations have media news often showing teenagers brawling in the streets.
Teenager education is very mentally stressful. Psychology theory should state “mental stress does strange thinks to children”.
For more information Google: bipolar; cortisol stress hippocampous; Little Albert. From these 3 search pages more information links can be found.
There exists several psychology forums where information could be read.

I argue that government certified education, causing increasing mental stress over a minimum of 11 years of pretend learning has a purpose of natural selection non-thinking robot intelligence truck driver employment skills. Students whom are least traumatised, succeed in better employment. Test scores provide more of a reflection of how students cope with preparation for examination mental stress than students' ability to think. Education is a working class education, not a thinker's education.
Childhood, teenager education and evening competitive, relationship dramatised television have working class workers conditioned to be bipolar. Bipolar symptoms are periods of joyous enthusiasm and angry mood swings.

A royal commission into family violence will not consider government education as a family violence main cause. Because most children attend schools, schools and political news dramas are brainwashing generations into believing what they are told by authority. Populations are scanning their brains for answers to support what they already believe, rather than populations thinking of the years of mental stress they experienced, that schooling allowed populations to be less than intelligent humans as they could have been without mentally stressful schooling.

On the same Monday July 13, ABC1 television breakfast program, a statement on priests molesting children, “the church can't be trusted to investigate itself”. A government and or governor commissioned Royal Commission isn't going to allow an important brainwashing and natural selection employment tool' education to be exposed. A royal commission may redirect human intelligent ideas away from mentally stressful education and television program themes as being a cause of family violence.
A women shown on July 13, Monday morning ABC1 television, talking about the family violence royal commission said she only wanted to expose the extent of family violence in the community.

July 13, Monday morning Royal Commission opening address spokes woman Marcia Neave said, “we are a different kind of royal commission... our task is not to undertake a forensic (she stuttered) investigate about a cause or occurrence of a particular event”.
The royal commission is going to listen yet they're not going to do anything other than provide individual counselling to people whom require counselling. Any recommendations coming from the royal commission “hearing” directed at a government will, over time, most probably be ignored as governments (the establishment) knew exactly what they are doing.

Governments get to justify their existence by looking concerned about trying to solve a problem, that governments themselves don't want people to realise governments are responsible for a concerning problem.

Steve,
The risk factors for domestic violence depend mainly upon race/ethnic background,poverty, substance abuse and mental illness, having read extensively on the issue I've never come across any information which would tend to support your assertions. I watched the live stream until the lunch break on Monday and found it to be little more than a history lesson on the path taken by Victorian authorities toward the present family violence policies in law enforcement and social work.

Has there ever been a list of what constitutes family violence.

When you say family violence you automatically think of females being mal treated. Surely that is not always the case.

Royal Commission into family violence? What a joke that would be. The fools who adopted Spock and other ideologies are reaping the fruit of their stupidity. Surely no one is dumb enough not to see that the breakdown of the natural family and the total lack of discipline for children has led to dramatic increases in violence. The Judges would first need to see that their idiotic anti family policies have fueled this problem. They are not fit to look into 'family'violence.

Runner has a valid point. Just about everything that can go wrong with families is happening. We live in an anti-family period. Families have always been the backone of a decent, democratic society; but now, and for about two decades, social engineering by people wanting control of the West (they are insiders, not from outside our society) is gradually breaking down family structure. Single parent famiies; open slather for promiscuity rather than commitment; encouraging loss of self-control and personal responsibility; promoting "equality" for homosexuality, and just about anything that is against family values, including the acceptance as normal that more and more people are rejecting the 'til-death-do-us part side of the marriage vows. It's OK for an aging man to turn his back on a wife who is showing wear and tear (doesn't matter what he looks like, though) Now, in retaliation, we have cougars! Domestic violence stems from frustration, brought on by unrealistic expectations and beliefs peddled by social wreckers.