Women's night fears

ALMOST one in seven Australian women have avoided public transport in the past year because they felt unsafe, new research has revealed.

A quarter of women fearing for their safety also chose not to walk in their local area after dark. The shocking new data showed that, in the past year, almost one in 10 women felt unsafe alone at home after sunset.

Men typically felt safer on public transport, walking locally and at home. Australia’s largest survey on violence found it had fallen over the past decade, from 7.5 per cent in 2005 to 4.5 per cent in 2016