The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) recently released a report showing that domestic and family violence is directly responsible for one-third of all Australians who used specialist homelessness services over the last two years.
The AIHW identified 520,000 Australians who accessed specialist homelessness services (SHS). Of these, over one-third (or 187,000) were adults and children seeking assistance for reasons of domestic and family violence.
A breakdown of the figures released by the AIHW showed that the majority of people accessing SHS because of domestic or family violence were women with children (45,404) and young women presenting alone (23,805).
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