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Article: Vic: Half a million Australian women suffer from violence
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- December 14, 1999
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AAP General News (Australia)
12-14-1999
Vic: Half a million Australian women suffer from violence
By Heather Gallagher
MELBOURNE, Dec 14 AAP - Almost half a million Australian women were abused in a single
year, making the "she'll be right" attitude no longer acceptable, the federal sex discrimination
commissioner said today.
Susan Halliday, a commissioner from the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission,
was speaking at the launch of a video which recorded the previously untold tragedies of
14 Australian women.
The testimonies, of domestic violence, rape, childhood abuse, torture and poverty,
were filmed while being told to the first Australian Tribunal for Women's Human Rights
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