Canberra, Sep 11 (TIWN) Researchers from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) published a on Friday survey that detailed how the Covid-19 pandemic has made domestic and family violence in Australia more common and severe.

In addition, 67 per cent of workers reported abuse victims seeking help for the first time during the pandemic.
 
Lead author of the study, professor of education and social justice at QUT Kerry Carrington said the findings were not completely surprising.
 
"We did expect that the lockdown conditions would create a perfect storm for anyone who is in a coercive controlling relationship, there was just no space," Carrington told on Friday.
 
A government study from Australian Institute of Criminology that interviewed 15,000 women across Australia in May of 2020 found that 11.6 per cent of respondents had been the victim of some kind of domestic abuse.
 
Two-thirds of the respondents reported that the abuse had either started or escalated since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
 
Carrington told, that there are a multitude of factors behind the coinciding of this uptick with the pandemic and ensuing lockdowns.
 
"So the pandemic itself created the perfect storm for insecurity, financial loss, loss of jobs and of course intense conflict within families, kids home, home schooling, inability to escape."