Efforts to solve the problem of domestic violence over recent years are only a beginning. There is so much more that still needs to be done. Domestic violence shatters the lives of thousands of Australian families. Recent surveys have shown that domestic violence is far more widespread than we had thought. It touches people in all walks of life, in the cities and in rural and remote areas.
Domestic violence is everybody's business .
And domestic violence can have a large cost for business. The victims of domestic violence, and the perpetrators, are not isolated in any one part of the Australian workforce. A worker who experiences violence at home will not be as productive, neither will a worker who has been violent at home. And those are costs which are passed on to businesses. But it's not simply a matter of dollars.