Australia: Rise in men taking out domestic violence orders against mothers and partners at Southport Court

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'GOLD Coast men are taking out domestic-violence orders against their mothers, partners and relatives but support workers are sceptical of the applications’ legitimacy.

About 30 per cent of domestic-violence and family protection orders at Southport Magistrates Court in the first three months of this year were to men, rather than women.
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Director of the Gold Coast Domestic Violence Prevention Centre Amy Compton-Keen said male perpetrators of domestic violence were known to take out orders against women as a means of control.
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“That’s one of the dynamics of domestic violence, that the man comes off looking like he is a perfectly great guy but is often the perpetrator and uses the system to control the woman and she ends up taking the rap for stuff he has done.”

Despite this, Buckland Allen Criminal Lawyers partner Jodi Allen said courts could order cross protection orders between parties, and women could still lodge an application against a man, even if he had been awarded a protection order against her.
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Assistant Commissioner Brian Codd said there were genuine instances of domestic violence against men.

“Yes, there are examples of it, but women committing domestic violence against men are definitely in the minority,” he said.'