- Target:
- The Australian Prime Minister and The Queensland Government
- Region:
- Australia
There are a lot of people who feel that the Australian laws regarding the treatment of domestic violence cases are far too lenient, as a former victim of domestic violence I sought help on one occasion to no avail, this happens to a lot of people in similar situations where they call the police only to be told that there's nothing they can do until someone gets hurt, many men, women and children have been murdered in these circumstances because the police 'can't' do anything until someone gets hurt, there many cases of battered wife syndrome where someone takes the laws into their own hands because they've had enough of being abused and because the police 'can't do anything until someone gets hurt and even when someone gets hurt justice doesn't always prevail.
I've seen this time and time again and it's got to stop, enough is enough and changed need to be made, myself along with others feel that there would less of these cases if the laws were tougher in the first place, there are far too many people being abused with no way of getting any real help.
I'm asking the Australian government to take these matters VERY seriously, I am asking that these current laws are reformed and made tougher, I am asking that the police be given more power to charge offenders for these type of crimes, I am asking that offenders are given a mandatory requirement to seek rehabilitation and counselling services once there is AVO put out against them, I am asking that habitual abusers are imprisoned in more serious cases, I am asking that people have the right to be safe in a relationship and KNOW that they can get REAL help should that relationship no longer be safe.
Most of all I am asking for Australian governments to take a ZERO tolerance attitude on domestic violence as there is NO place for it at all...
WE WANT A SAFER AUSTRALIA!
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The Change the Domestic Violence Laws in Australia petition to The Australian Prime Minister and The Queensland Government was written by Selena L'estrange and is in the category Law Reform at GoPetition.