“Parents… have come to realize that children can be well behaved, cooperative, and polite without ever having been punished physically” (Spock, 2016). In 2015 320,170 notifications were made to the Department of Child Safety regarding suspected child abuse. Alarmingly this was 5.3% higher than the previous reporting period (Australian institute of Family Studies, 2017). A great deal of attention has been justifiably placed onto domestic violence in Australia. However governments across Australia must do more to rectify the plight of children trapped within households that have documented domestic violence. An establishing step must be to abolish the use of corporal punishment as a behaviour management technique within families. The Queensland
