Advocates are demanding the South Australian government launch an urgent royal commission into domestic violence after four women were murdered by men in the state in one week.
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FOUR WOMEN DEAD ALLEGEDLY AT THE HANDS OF MEN
* A 44-year-old woman was found dead inside her home in Adelaide's east by police on November 15, with a 50-year-old Felixstow man known to her later charged with her murder.
* The next day, police arrested and charged Michael Edward Amos, 53, with murdering a 45-year-old woman known to him at a property in the community of Davenport, near Port Augusta.
* Clifford Aurthor Neumann, 40, was charged with murdering a 39-year-old woman known to him at a property in Adelaide's south on Sunday.
* Jodie Jewell, a mother to a teenage daughter, was shot dead by her husband Kevin at their home in Adelaide's northeast on Tuesday. His body was found two days later in scrubland on the Yorke Peninsula.
THE COMMUNITY REACTS
* "Every community member has a role to play in creating a safer community for women, children and others experiencing violence. Real change requires a shift in community attitudes so that coercive and controlling behaviours are recognised as harmful and dangerous red flags." - Embolden SA general manager Mary Leaker
* "Prevention is really the way we can work towards solving the problem. (A royal commission) must include a significant analysis of how we can prevent this violence from happening in the first place." - Leigh Garrett, chief executive of restorative justice program OARS Community Transitions
* "It's an absolute disgrace that five women have been killed this month in South Australia. If we don't have a royal commission now we will be here next month and the week after and the week after." - Abbey Kendall, director of the Working Women's Centre
* "We are in a battle. It is time to double down on our effort of resistance." - Deirdre Flynn, client services manager of crisis accommodation provider Catherine House
* "What we are dealing with here is a toxic culture. Politicians have a responsibility to change laws; we have a responsibility to change the culture." - SA Unions secretary Dale Beasley
* "Like all South Australians, I am devastated and angry at the senseless loss of these women's lives. I honour the victims and offer my condolences to their loved ones." - SA Premier Peter Malinauskas
* "I am absolutely devastated by these horrific deaths. We need men to be stepping up and calling out those behaviours that disrespect women." - Minister for Domestic Violence Prevention Katrine Hildyard
* "We stand together against male violence against women. I'm pleased to hear the government will consider the terms of a royal commission." - Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence Prevention Josh Teague
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