National Data Collection Business Against Domestic Violence Business Against Domestic Violence was launched by the Prime Minister in November 1997 and aims to encourage business as an important part of the community, to play a role in preventing and responding to domestic violence. 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.