NineMSN Poll "Are Women more violent than they used to be" and related news story

The Daily Telegraph (Australian National Daily) ran a story this morning that the rate of female DV has increased by 159% in 8 years, also pointing out this was an increase of 11% per annum, while male DV is rising by 2% per annum.

Its actually a very decent article and quoted Reg Price, who runs the Men's Rights Agency. It even pointed out the problems men have being beleived by our Police and also the lack of shelters for men. NineMSN (Australia's version of MSN) couldnt bring themselves to run the story of course, but did make the issue the question for todays poll - "are women becoming more violent?". Interesting to see how feminists try to mis-direct attention away from this story. Excerpt:

'WOMEN are becoming more violent towards their partners.

Shocking figures have revealed that the number of women who have been charged with domestic violence-related assault has soared by 159 per cent over the past eight years.

The figures, from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics, show 2336 women faced court on charges of domestic violence in 2007, mainly for bashing their husbands, compared with just 818 in 1999.

Men's groups said yesterday they were happy that police were finally taking men seriously but it remained tough for husbands to admit they had been attacked by their wives.'