We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July,

and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already.

Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show.

Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests,

our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bizina in

Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly.

We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is recorded.

We pay our respects to their elders, past and present, and to Aboriginal

elders emerging.

The following podcast contains content of a graphic violent nature and is not suitable for children.

You really get the sense of someone who's trying as best as they can to

manage a situation and to manage a person and do whatever they can to not

fan the flames of an argument or to not antagonize someone. And obviously she was aware that this couldn't just be a matter of saying look I'm done

see you later. While Australia's official mortality rate from COVID-19 remains mercifully low. We haven't escaped the other

deadly side effect of quarantine that's seen extraordinarily high fatalities

all around the world. It is of course increased rates of family violence.

The clearest and most recent research I could find was this.

New South Wales seems to have experienced an increase of around 35% in reports of domestic violence during lockdown.

Those numbers come from comparing the New South Wales Police Force crime reports from April 2018 against those from March 2020.

Those numbers are on a par with reports from France, Singapore, Germany, Cyprus and Brazil, all reporting increases of around 30 to 40 percent.

Domestic violence reports in Hubay Province, the first epicenter of the virus, more than tripled during

lockdown in February of this year.

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