‘These cretins feel they have a social licence’: Daily Telegraph takes aim at domestic violence ‘cowards’

The Daily Telegraph has launched a powerful new campaign against domestic violence perpetrators, pledging to call out these assaults for what they really are – coward attacks.

In response to the alarming rise of domestic violence attacks in NSW – which included the death of a two-year-old and six-year-old boy and a five-month-old girl in a house fire just this week – the masthead is changing the language about the abusers in a bid to hold them accountable.

Where the law permits, the Daily Telegraph will now refer to any domestic violence incidents as “coward attacks”. This is an initiative that Mumbrella supports and will also be adopting moving forward for such news stories.

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