Major report released on the prevention of violence against women and children

Rear view of an unrecognizable abused woman sitting on her bed looking out the window.

On average a woman in Australia dies every nine days at the hands of their current or former partner. Source: Getty / Alvaro Medina Jurado/Getty Images

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The report, with input from 500 experts, has been made public almost six months after it was handed to government, and will be used to inform Australia's next national plan to end violence against women and children.

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