212

I've been reading Living at the Cutting Edge Women's Experiences of Protection Orders. I might have something to say about it in the next few days. But now all I can write about is the dedication.

The report is dedicated to the 212 women and children who have died in domestic violence homicides since the new law was passed in 1995.

The dedication has the names and ages (where known) of each of those 212 people.

As I read the list, and I read all the names, there were some names I recognised. There were some children, and fewer women, whose deaths had made the news. But there were far I'd never heard of, who were murdered and that was it.