Australia's new militia (video)

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prahocalypse now wrote: Sun Feb 11, 2018 10:27 pm Australia is, apparently, the safest country in the world for women.
The rest of the countries must be pretty bad then!
Violence against women in Australia (2017)
AUSTRALIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION SUBMISSION TO THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

Australia has a disturbingly high rate of violence against women. In recent times, policy and public discussions on violence against women in Australia have had a strong focus on family and domestic violence, in particular intimate partner violence. However, consultations conducted by the Commission indicate that violence against women can take many forms, including family and domestic violence, sexual assault, sexual harassment, violence in residential settings and online violence and harassment.

A Personal Safety Survey conducted in 2012 by the Australian Bureau of Statistics found that 5.3% of women had experienced some form of violence in the last 12 months, and 40.8% had experienced some form of violence since the age of 15.[7] The Survey indicated that most instances of violence against women were perpetrated by someone known to them: around 74% of women who had experienced violence in the last 12 months, and 87% of women who had experienced violence since the age of 15, reported that the perpetrator was someone they know.[8] This compares to 45% of men who had experienced violence in past 12 months, and 54% of men who had experience violence since the age of 15.[9]

Intimate partner violence is one of the most common forms of violence against women, with 1.5% of women reporting violence by a current or former partner in the past 12 months, and 16.9% reporting intimate partner violence since the age of 15 (compared to 0.6% of men in the past 12 months and 5.3% of men since the age of 15).[10] A more recent study has estimated that 27.5% of Australian women have experienced violence or emotional abuse by a current or previous partner.[11]

A 2016 study by Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWS) found that intimate partner violence accounted for 5.1% of the disease burden amongst women aged 18 to 44 years — more than other any other risk factor.[12] Research has also demonstrated that victims/survivors often experience enduring mental health problems as a result of such violence.[13] Between 2002–03 and 2011–12, 488 women were killed by a current or former partner, often after a history of domestic violence.[14] Women represented 75% of intimate partner homicide victims over this period.[15]
https://www.humanrights.gov.au/sites/de ... ission.pdf
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This link might work better than the one above: https://www.humanrights.gov.au/submissi ... ralia-2017

I think that a problem with the AUSTRALIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION SUBMISSION TO THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN is how it defines violence.

They include "online violence". Violence by definition involves "physical force". How can it be physical if it is online?

They also include sexual harassment which doesn't necessarily involve physical contact.
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I'd just throw a rock at the fat guy with nun-chucks.
You could be next.
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I would like details of how the survey was conducted. Stats are meaningless without more info., therefore I treat the claim with disdain.

Other than that, I can only speak to my personal experience of which countries FEEL safer to me. I can only say I have felt less safe in Australia as a lone woman on the streets than anywhere else. Of course, my personal extremely subjective feelings are of no more value than the stats reported.
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