Two male victims of family violence talk about their experience of domestic abuse.
This is our belated contribution to the #MeToo discussion. When we make female perpetrators invisible, we make their mostly male victims invisible too. Blaming ‘men’ not only makes it harder for male victims to get help, it also puts them at risk of secondary victimisation when they present as a victim yet are treated like a perpetrator.
1IN3 ‘s appearance before the Inquiry into Coercive Control in Domestic Relationships. Public Hearing at Jubilee Room, Parliament House, Sydney, on Monday 29 March 2021.
ABC Radio Brisbane confirms one male is a victim of domestic homicide every 10 days. In an ABC Radio interview with Robert Brockway from Men's Rights Brisbane, the statistic that "one male is a victim of domestic homicide every 10 days" was challenged by the ABC presenter and by a number of listeners. In a rare piece of honesty and transparency, the ABC then contacted the Australian Institute of Criminology and an Assistant Professor of Criminology at Bond University who verified that the statistic was indeed correct. This radio segment has been edited to include only the relevant portions of it.