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Violence against women and children affects everybody. It impacts on the health, wellbeing and safety of a significant proportion of Australians throughout all states and territories and places an enormous burden on the nation’s economy across family and community services, health and hospitals, income-support and criminal justice systems.

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ANROWS hosts events as part of its knowledge transfer and exchange work, including public lectures, workshops and research launches. Details of upcoming ANROWS activities and news are available from the list on the right.

ANROWS

About ANROWS

ANROWS was established by the Commonwealth and all state and territory governments of Australia to produce, disseminate and assist in applying evidence for policy and practice addressing violence against women and children.

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Resources

To support the take-up of evidence, ANROWS offers a range of resources developed from research to support practitioners and policy-makers in delivering evidence-based interventions.


FACT SHEET

We’re all progressing together: NCAS findings for Australian states and territories

This resource will be useful to Australian policymakers and practitioners seeking to understand attitudes and understanding of violence against women in their jurisdiction. 

This resource highlights results from Attitudes matter: The 2021 National Community Attitudes towards Violence against Women Survey (NCAS), Findings for Australian states and territories. Each jurisdiction’s overall progress toward improving attitudes and understanding of violence against women is compared with results for Australia as a whole, with significant findings from each state and territory also summarised.

By considering state and territory prevalence data from the 2021–22 Personal Safety Survey (PSS) next to these jurisdictional findings, this resource illustrates the disconnect between respondents’ low recognition that violence against women is a problem in their own suburb or town and actual prevalence rates of violence across Australia.

This resource includes a series of infographics (also provided separately on the NCAS microsite for ease of sharing) that cover:

  • overall improvement in attitudes and understanding of violence against women, by each jurisdiction and Australia
  • prevalence statistics and community attitudes about violence being a problem in Australia and in respondents’ own suburb or town, by jurisdiction and Australia
  • highlighted findings for each state and territory.

This resource provides policymakers and practitioners with an overview of each state and territory’s current understanding and attitudes towards violence against women and how they have progressed over time. It translates findings from two key population surveys, Personal Safety, Australia (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2023) and Attitudes matter: The 2021 National Community Attitudes towards Violence against Women Survey (NCAS), Findings for Australian states and territories (ANROWS, 2023).

 

 

Suggested citation

Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety. (2023). We’re all progressing together: NCAS findings for Australian states and territories [Fact sheet]. ANROWS.

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