'The worst year': domestic violence soars in Australia during Covid-19 | Domestic violence | The Guardian

'The worst year': domestic violence soars in Australia during Covid-19 | Domestic violence | The Guardian

"...Hayley Foster, chief executive of Women’s Safety, New South Wales, has worked in domestic violence support for 15 years and she’s been shocked by what she’s witnessed this year.

“2020 will be remembered as the worst year for domestic violence that any of us who are in the sector now have ever experienced,” says Foster.

“There [have been] just so many more strangulation cases, so many threats to kill, so many more serious head injuries, and sexual assaults [have been] going through the roof,” she says...Read all.