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<\/p>\nA French woman living in Melbourne has gone viral for praising Australia as a \u201csafe\u201d country where she feels comfortable walking the streets alone at night.<\/p>\n
The Paris-born woman, named Sonia, took to Instagram earlier this month to share a video of her walking down a darkened street while explaining how \u201csafe\u201d she felt.<\/p>\n
\u201cPOV: you\u2019re walking alone at 1am and remember that feeling safe as a woman is NOT normal. But\u2026 in Australia it is,\u201d Sonia wrote.<\/p>\n
Some social media users agreed that they \u201cfeel safe\u201d in Australia, while others rushed to the comments section to warn the young woman about the dangers facing Australians.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomething like 200 women have been killed in gender based violence attacks in the past two years, Australia is not a safe place to be walking alone at night! Stay safe everyone,\u201d one person commented.<\/p>\n
\u201cAustralia may feel safer than some other places but please don\u2019t share this as if it\u2019s some kind of wonderland here where women can safely walk alone at night because that is absolutely untrue,\u201d another woman agreed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love that you are enjoying your experience, but please do not be complacent. Evil exists everywhere and we have lost our share of beautiful innocent women,\u201d said a third.<\/p>\n
One Aussie said \u201cI love my country\u201d, but reminded others that \u201cit\u2019s not that safe at night to be walking alone as a woman\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Another person urged Sonia to view recent crime statistics in Australia\u2019s major cities. \u201cYou will soon realise it\u2019s not safe for women or men alone at night! Please be careful,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n
Gender-based violence has been classified as a \u201ccritical national issue\u201d in Australia, with the Bureau of Statistics stating that one in three Australians will experience physical violence in their lifetime.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe found that an estimated 4 million men and 3 million women have experienced physical violence since the age of 15,\u201d said head of crime and justice statistics Will Milne.<\/p>\n
The agency said both men and women are three times more likely to be attacked by a male perpetrator, with 74 per cent of attacks on men occurring outside the home, like a pub, bar, or in the street.<\/p>\n
For women, 70 per cent of incidents occur inside the home, most often by a current or former partner.<\/p>\n
Anthony Albanese\u2019s government has committed to ending gender-based violence by 2032.<\/p>\n
With the National Plan, the government has pledged to improve the family law system and provide thorough guidance on the prevention of violence, and more support for victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A French woman living in Melbourne has gone viral for praising Australia as a \u201csafe\u201d country where she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,10891,1202,44,101671],"class_list":["post-360956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-gender-based-violence","tag-instagram","tag-news","tag-violence-against-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}