The NSW Domestic Violence Commissioner, Hannah Tonkin, has warned easy access to pornography and extreme online misogyny were fuelling harmful attitudes to relationships as she called on men to lead cultural change by stepping up as leaders and role models.
“It’s shocking and it’s heartbreaking,” said Tonkin. “Women are feeling angry, they’re feeling unsafe. And we need to come together as a nation, urgently, to address this.”The dead include mother and childcare worker Molly Ticehurst, whose alleged killer, Daniel Billings, 29, was released on bail after being charged with sexually assaulting and intimidating her less than two weeks before she died.
In the past two years, domestic violence assaults reported by NSW Police have increased by 6.7 per cent, while intimidation, stalking and harassment reports have increased by 6.1 per cent, Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research figures show.Tonkin said efforts to reform police, justice and welfare responses must be accelerated, but cultural change was needed at the same time.
Our Watch CEO Patty Kinnersly held serious concerns about the influence of the online environment on young people, warning sexist rhetoric by public figures, coupled with violent pornography, could lead to sexualised violence. A survey by men’s mental health charity Man Cave found 92 per cent of Australian high-school-aged boys had heard of, while 35 per cent said they “related” to him. Studies have also found that nearly 90 per cent of porn depicts violence against women.
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