Recent court findings and official reviews in South Australia and Western Australia have revealed serious weaknesses in how domestic violence risks are managed.

南澳州與西澳州最近的法院調查與官方審查發現，在處理家庭暴力風險方面存在嚴重缺陷。

In South Australia, Judge Ian White led an investigation into the death of Kobi Shepherdson. He concluded that the death was caused by a series of basic institutional mistakes. Specifically, the South Australian Police (SAPOL) failed to correctly assess the danger posed by the perpetrator, Henry Shepherdson. The court emphasized that the perpetrator used prison phones to psychologically control the victim's mother. Judge White asserted that if the risk had been labeled as 'high,' police would have used multi-agency protection plans, which likely would have stopped this illegal behavior. Consequently, the judge recommended that the government reform prisoner phone services and use findings from the Royal Commission on Domestic Violence.

在南澳州，法官 Ian White 領導了一項關於 Kobi Shepherdson 之死的調查。他結論認為，這次死亡是由一系列基本的機構錯誤造成的。具體來說，南澳州警察局 (SAPOL) 未能正確評估兇手 Henry Shepherdson 構成的危險。法庭強調，兇手利用監獄電話對被害者的母親進行心理控制。White 法官斷言，如果風險被標記為「高」，警方就會採取多機構保護計劃，這很可能會阻止此類非法行為。因此，法官建議政府改革囚犯電話服務，並採納家庭暴力皇家委員會的調查結果。

Similarly, in Western Australia, Police Commissioner Col Blanch has started an internal review regarding the police's interaction with Virginia Giuffre before her suicide in April 2024. This action follows requests from the victim's family, who claim that police did not respond properly to several reports of domestic violence. A major concern is that police may have wrongly identified the victim as the aggressor during a fight with a former partner. Furthermore, sixteen academic and medical experts have asked for a public inquiry, arguing that this case shows wider systemic failures in protecting victims of domestic violence.

同樣在西澳州，警察局長 Col Blanch 已開始內部審查警方在 Virginia Giuffre 2024 年 4 月自殺前與她的互動。此舉是應被害者家屬的要求，他們聲稱警方未能對多次家庭暴力舉報做出妥善回應。一個主要擔憂是，警方在被害者與前伴侶爭執期間，可能誤將被害者認定為攻擊者。此外，十六位學術與醫療專家要求進行公開調查，認為此案顯示在保護家庭暴力被害者方面存在更廣泛的系統性失效。

Both states are now reviewing their risk assessment methods to prevent more domestic violence deaths in the future.

兩個州目前都在重新審視其風險評估方法，以防止未來發生更多家庭暴力死亡事件。