Study finds women victims of aggression get the blame

By Judith Ireland
Updated November 25 2015 - 4:08pm, first published 3:43pm
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at a family violence event on Tuesday. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at a family violence event on Tuesday. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at a family violence event on Tuesday. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at a family violence event on Tuesday. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Federal government-commissioned research has found that women still get blamed for aggression towards them, while the behaviour of the men involved tends to be excused as a "rite of passage".

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