Australian of the Year, Rosie Batty has launched an app with the Australian Government that will connect women experiencing violence with the necessary resources to seek help.
Domestic violence is an incredibly serious issue in Australia and across the world.
Already this year 15 women have died at the hands of their partners.
One in six women will experience some form of violence, and murders committed by an intimate partner account for one fifth of all homicides in Australia, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Read more:A week ago Tara Costigan was celebrating the birth of her daughter. Now she is dead.
Of all crime statistics that you hear are improving, this one is not.
That’s why a new app launched by Australian of the Year, Rosie Batty and Senator Michaelia Cash should be seriously applauded.
The new mobile app connects women experiencing violence to specialist support services across Australia.
“When you are experiencing gendered violence, people often tell you what to do – but the strongest predictor of a woman’s safety is the woman herself,” Batty said at the launch.
“The phone is often the thing that you keep the closest so to have all this information on an app is fantastic. It’s helpful and convenient and it will make connecting to the right organisations a lot easier. Ultimately, Daisy helps raise awareness.”
The ‘Daisy’ app was developed by 1800RESPECT and funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services.
The app was created to empower women who are experiencing violence to access services. These services will be unique to their own situation with a list of specialist sexual assault, domestic and family violence services available in their local area. It will provide all necessary services from legal support through to crisis accommodation.
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A great deal is now being said publicly about domestic abuse, and yet the death rate continues to climb, as this site has reported. Nothing so far that has been said or done has prevented that climbing rate. In the meantime, women and men continue to get married, or live together, or form intimate relationships. And the society continues to encourage that. And some relationships seem to be fine, as far as an outsider can tell. But a family unit is a closed unit, in our kind of society. No-one so far has floated the idea that the housing, and intimate arrangements and habits of marriage and man-woman relationships per se are basically flawed. If this were true, then few people would want to acknowledge it. There could be alternatives, but that would mean changing way of life, something that a lot of people would find too hard to confront. Perhaps the Mamamia crew will not like me saying this and not want to post these comments. I am curious.
Several articles on this website question and criticize Tony Abbott's attitude towards domestic violence, so why isn't Michaela Cash's photo next to Rosie Battys? I suspect that without the Government's resources there would be no app.