Madam Chair, that's a great question.
Seventeen per cent of male respondents said that in their lifetime they had experienced some form of intimate partner violence, and that was from the age of 15. You are correct. Many victims of intimate partner violence do not report to the police for a number of reasons: shame, feeling that it won't be taken seriously, concerns about disentangling the financial relationship or children who are involved. In addition, we also know that men are reluctant to turn to police for a multitude of reasons.
Every year we publish a lot of data from police-reported statistics outlining the number of men and women who were victims of intimate partner violence, and we can look at the data from police and determine whether it was a same-sex relationship or an opposite-sex relationship.
We insist on monitoring the impact of intimate partner violence on both sexes, because they're both at risk, although women are at greater risk for more severe forms of violence and, sadly, more lethal violence.