Police, courts, family and sexual violence, scams and fraud, emergencies, corrections.
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Police, courts, family and sexual violence, scams and fraud, emergencies, corrections.
Why it matters: Safety determines whether citizens trust other government to function — when it fails, trust collapses fast. First Nations incarceration is the most acute Closing the Gap failure. Disability Royal Commission documented violence as systemic. Visa-conditional safety blocks migrant women from reporting. Coercive control is now criminalised in several states but detection lags.
| Cohort | What changes |
|---|---|
| Average | $2.7B/yr scam losses; opaque reporting; post-disaster insurance churn |
| First Nations | Incarceration rates; deaths in custody; lateral violence |
| Immigrants | Targeted scams; fear of reporting (visa risk); FDV services patchy |
| Veterans | Military-justice carryover; veteran-specific FDV; institutional-abuse legacy |
| Disability | Violence rates ~2x; restrictive practices; safeguarding gaps |
| Children & youth | 10yo age of criminal responsibility; cyber-abuse; over-policing of First Nations youth |
| Parents & carers | Children-as-FV-victims; coercive control; carer abuse rarely reported |