00:00I had been doing a lot of research relating to parental separation and the family court,
00:08and I had noticed that they were categorising children as being abused, who in my opinion
00:14weren't being abused. Actually, their parents, in my opinion, were trying to murder them.
00:20And in one case, the father was charged with attempted murder. And I thought, I had not
00:27really understood this was a possibility for a child, that they would be so badly treated
00:32that this could happen. So we began looking at filicide in Victoria and found that, to
00:39our great surprise, there was very little known about it. And so we set up a big study
00:47beginning with Victoria and then went on to a national study, and we found that on average
00:52one child dies around every fortnight at the hands of one or other of their parents
00:58or step-parents. So having established that, we went on to do a lot of research looking
01:04at who were the perpetrators, why did this happen, what were the causes that led to it,
01:11and we have just finished a big study, again on Victoria, looking at the notion of what
01:18you might call red flag risks, showing the kind of factors that you could call risks
01:25and showing that the risks are constellations of risks. There's not just one risk. It's
01:31got to be a number of things happening at the one time that leads to or triggers the
01:37filicide.
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