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Remove items from your saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n AAA<\/p>\n Pauline Hanson has been accused of victim-blaming after declaring domestic violence \u201ca two-way street\u201d and suggesting women subject to abuse should leave their relationship.<\/p>\n Anti-domestic violence campaigners swiftly condemned the One Nation leader on Wednesday, saying her comments shifted the blame away from perpetrators and ignored the difficulties victim-survivors faced in leaving abusive relationships.<\/p>\n Two women and two girls were allegedly murdered within four days earlier this month, forcing the issue into the national debate again after another string of shocking alleged murders<\/a> in May.<\/p>\n Hanson was asked on Brisbane radio on Wednesday to send a message to men who lose their temper, after she met with violent offender and UK far-right figure Tommy Robinson last week.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is wrong, but it\u2019s also a two-way street. But I\u2019m not saying that it\u2019s just men … women can lose their cool as well,\u201d Hanson told 4BC.<\/p>\n \u201cSociety is under so much pressure \u2026 I think today everyone\u2019s sitting on a time bomb because the pressures of cost of living and people having to be able to pay the bills, tension that\u2019s going on, or if you lose your job or the kids, what\u2019s happening with the children these days, everyone is under so much pressure, and it\u2019s really hard. I don\u2019t think we communicate enough with each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Hanson said women who were subject to abuse should leave the relationship.<\/p>\n \u201cDomestic violence is a scourge, but sometimes, look, I\u2019m not going to go in detail, but I\u2019ve been through it myself in my life, and I just feel that if you\u2019re not in a house where you feel safe, you feel you don\u2019t want to be there, then you shouldn\u2019t put up with it. And if these women are getting abused by men out there, then don\u2019t put up with it. That\u2019s what I\u2019m saying.\u201d<\/p>\n Sherele Moody, who founded the Red Heart Movement and tracks murders through the Australian Femicide Watch, said leaving, and the immediate aftermath, was the most dangerous time for women.<\/p>\n Related Article \u201c[Hanson] has a fundamental misunderstanding of how hard it is for a woman to leave a domestic violence situation. It\u2019s not just a case of a woman packing up her bags, the children and the pets, and walking out the door,\u201d Moody said.<\/p>\n \u201cShe\u2019s more likely to be murdered in that kind of time frame. There\u2019s always a lot of barriers for women to leaving.\u201d<\/p>\n Tarang Chawla, who became an domestic violence advocate after his younger sister Nikita was murdered when she tried to leave an abusive relationship, said Hanson\u2019s view put responsibility on the victim of abuse rather than the perpetrator.<\/p>\n \u201cMy sister Niki tried to do what Ms Hanson suggests. Terrible advice. He murdered her,\u201d he wrote on social media. \u201cIt is not as simple as \u2018don\u2019t put up with it\u2019. The responsibility isn\u2019t on the victim. It\u2019s on the person who is abusive or violent. Overwhelmingly, that person is a man.\u201d<\/p>\n Related Article Brittany Higgins slammed the comments, and said the rhetoric translated into votes against the interests of women and children in the Senate.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018Mutual abuse\u2019, \u2018two-way street\u2019, \u2018just leave\u2019 \u2013 normalising this victim-blaming rhetoric in relation to domestic violence when 38 Australian women have already been lost to femicide is atrocious,\u201d the Vida Fund executive director said on social media.<\/p>\n Four in five domestic violence offenders are male, with a median age of 35 years, according to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics figures from 2024-25.<\/p>\n The cost of leaving domestic and family violence has risen by 71 per cent in the past decade, according to Anglicare Sydney.<\/p>\n The not-for-profit\u2019s research, released on Monday, considered the cost of a rental bond, hiring a moving truck, temporary accommodation, and rebuilding a safe household.<\/p>\n Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek said Hanson\u2019s comments were irresponsible and dangerous. <\/p>\n \u201cSenator Hanson has a voice and she is using it to send a message to victims that violence is their fault and to those that use violence that it\u2019s excusable. We all experience pressures in life. Violence is never the answer,\u201d Plibersek said.<\/p>\n \u201cLeaving takes enormous courage, safety planning and financial support. Senator Hanson should focus on how we better support survivors rather than belittling them.\u201d<\/p>\n Cut through the noise of federal politics with news, views and expert analysis. Subscribers can sign up to our weekly Inside Politics newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n Save<\/p>\n You have reached your maximum number of saved items.<\/p>\n Remove items from your saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n![\"Pauline](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784702715_523_53fb1b90be6ba0bba5082fc518918b0e43f00501.jpeg\")
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