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In 2015, the Australian federalgovernment proclaimed that violence against women had become a national crisis.Despite widespread social and economic advances in the status of women sincethe 1970s, including growing awareness and action around gender violence, itsprevalence remains alarming. A third of all women in Australia have beenassaulted physically; a fifth of all women have been assaulted sexually.Intimate partner violence is significantly more prevalent in Australia thanwestern Europe or North America. One woman each week is murdered by an intimatepartner, and recent research suggests that nearly forty per cent of all womenwho suicide have a history of domestic or family violence. Domestic violence isa precipitating factor in a third of all homelessness. The resulting strain ongovernment services and lost productivity means that family violence has beenestimated as costing the Australian economy around $13.6 billion a year. Thehistories presented in this collection indicate exactly where these violentbehaviours come from and how they have been rationalised over time, offering animportant resource for addressing what amounts to a widespread, persistent, andurgent social problem.

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Dr Alana Piper is Research Fellow in the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology Sydney. She has published widely on gender, crime and legal history. Alanas work also draws on digital humanities approaches, both in her previous role as a Postdoctoral Fellow on the ARC Laureate Fellowship The Prosecution Project (2014-2018), and her current Chancellors Postdoctoral project Criminal Characters (2018-2022). Dr Ana Stevenson is a Research Fellow in the International Studies Group at the University of the Free State. Her research about women's movements in Australia and the United States appears in journals such as the Women's History Review, Cultural & Social History, and Pacific Historical Review.

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