Report on Social Problems in Australia 2022

SOCIAL
PROBLEMS IN
AUSTRALIA

Introduction
• Community development refers to the process where agencies and
individuals come together to take an appropriate action on what is
affecting the society (Straza, 2017).
• In practice, community development entails public agencies and
communities working together to improve community services and
the way decisions are made within the community (Straza, 2017).
• This report aims at discussion domestic violence as one of the
current social problems in Australia, with reference to relevant
theories and principles of community development (Straza, 2017).
The report will also propose recommendations that can help to
address this issue at policy and practice level(Straza, 2017).

Social Problem in Australia
• Domestic violence is one of the current social problems in
Australia which need to be addressed (Campo &Tayton, 2015).
• It entails a behavior where one of the partners in an intimate
relationship tries to harm the other partner either physically or
psychologically (Campo & Tayton, 2015).
• According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, approximately
3 million individuals in Australia have been victims of
domestic violence (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare,
2019; Campo & Tayton, 2015) .
• The problem predominantly affects women and children. The
lifelong impacts of this social problem calls for appropriate
measures to enable the community address this social
problem (Campo & Tayton, 2015)