Two women and two girls dead in four days. Australian experts yet again call for action

‘We already have more than 1,000 recommendations. The knowledge gap isn’t there. There’s an implementation gap’, policy expert saysGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLast week, two women and two girls were allegedly murdered in four days. The deaths of Lavanya Chappa, Jana Armstrong, Layla Jeffery, 13, and a 17-year-old Yolngu girl, have been called another crisis point for domestic and family violence.It has been eight weeks since the last national crisis point: the alleged murder of a woman and two children at a Sydney home. Before that it was the January killings of Sophie Quinn, her unborn baby, Nerida Quinn and John Harris. Every time, there is the same familiar hand-wringing, and often calls for a royal commission. Continue reading...