New research released by the Australian government has found that more than 1 in 3 average Aussie men freely admit to having committed domestic violence against their partner.

It proves what many women in Australia have known for years – even if it’s “not all men”, it’s more than 1 in 3.

And that is just the men who are happy to say, yep I’m committing violent acts against against people I claim to love. The rest, we are left to wonder about.

These statistics come from the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS), in a longitudinal study that compares men’s health and self-reported behaviour in 2023-24 and 2013-14.

In 2013-14, it was only 1 in 4 Australian men (25%) who freely admitted to having committed domestic violence against their partner.

It is not okay that more Aussie men than ever before are abusing women.

And it’s not okay that more men than ever before think this behaviour is so normal, that they’ll happily admit to committing literal crimes against women.

It cannot be overstated – these are self-reported behavioural statistics, from a huge sample size of 26,000 men.

This means these statistics really do represent what men think and do in Australia.

But we know from other studies that men typically don’t admit to poor behaviour without an incentive, and that most crimes go unreported. 

For example, the Australian Institute of Criminology estimates that two-thirds or more of all rapes and sexual assaults are never reported to authorities.

So to put the “1 in 3” in perspective, it becomes likely that another 1 in 3 of men in Australia may have committed violence against women, but refused to admit it in the longitudinal study.

This means a majority of men in Australia are now or have been in the past, violent men.

Most men, by law, should be in jail or in reoffender prevention programs, in order to keep the rest of the population safe from them.

Reports said that in this world-first study about domestic violence, they think one of the solutions is for dads and father figures to be nice to their sons. (Duh.) But that only reduces the risk of those men becoming violent by up to 48%.

So let’s talk about the more effective things we could actually do to stop Aussie men from being violent or becoming violent.

It is not just about training kids and men to be respectful, either, according to the research from this study, and the research from experts like Jess Hill.

It’s primarily about stopping boys and men from having access to alcohol, gambling and betting apps, weapons, sports, night activities, and more.

Alcohol, because when men drink, they can’t think.

Gambling and betting apps, because men are more likely to take stupid risks, and when they lose their money, they double down and take more risks, and once they’re in the hole, then they turn on their families.

Weapons, because men’s bodies are dangerous enough on their own, but when they have access to a gun, it usually ends in them killing one of their loved ones.

Sports, because every State of Origin night has proven to turn grown men from spectators into savages.

Night curfews, because the lockout laws that made pubs close for a few hours each night did actually reduce men’s violence in major cities and towns across the country.

I’ll find the link to the studies about each of these items later, but right now your girl is tired.

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