Domestic violence cuts both ways in Australia

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'Sydney - It's the emancipation of women: they drink and drive more than they used to, they get sent to prison more and, it seems, they batter their partners more. Women have always been perpetrators of domestic violence as well as victims. Figures from the Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research in Western Australia, the country's biggest state, show a 159-per-cent rise in women before the courts over the past eight years on charges stemming from violent arguments in the home.
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"It's much harder for a man to actually admit that his wife is beating him up," she said. "They seem to regard it as a shameful issue. And a lot of police actually say to men 'What did you do to make your wife hit you?' or 'Can't you handle your missus?'"'