Sarah Ferguson, host of ABCTV’s Four Corners, spent six months last year making a two-part documentary about domestic violence, Hitting Home, which aired on the ABC last November. She told Uncovered about the challenges of reporting on the issue.

By including the sentiments of friends and family members in news reports of domestic violence incidents, are we minimising the actions of perpetrators?

Finding appropriate images to represent the horror of domestic violence isn’t easy.

It was the story we didn’t know how to tell. Day after day we’d ignore the callouts we heard over the police scanner. There were too many to count, anyway, and it wasn’t really anything for us to worry about.  After all, violence against women was a private matter, no-one else’s business - not even a journalist’s.