In the last 10 days, five women have allegedly been killed by male violence, and Alice Rose McShera’s Crown Perth death at the alleged hands of her ex-partner is another sad indictment of the state of violence against women in this nation.

Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon from the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre joined Oly Peterson on 6PR’s Perth Live.

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