New Zealand has the worst rate of family and intimate-partner violence in the world.
In 2015, police around New Zealand attended about 105,000 family violence callouts.
If each of those incidents was represented by a person, that’s getting close to the population of Tauranga.
It is estimated that 80 per cent of incidents go unreported — so what we know of family violence in our community is barely the tip of the iceberg. Continue reading