Walgett shire has become an outlier amongst its fellow communities – and the state – as reports of domestic violence show a 66 per cent rise of incidents in the last two years.
Crime rate reports have rarely shone a great light on Western Plains communities, but revealed some of the challenges that outer regional and remote locations are constantly trying to reconcile.
The latest report from the Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR), which tracks criminal activity and trends in every LGA across NSW, is disappointingly, not much different…