Family of Queensland woman killed by former partner call for national domestic violence database

Calls come ahead of meeting of Australia's ministers for women, where groups say a national register should be discussed

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Tabitha Bleys was shocked to learn that in the two weeks before her mother, Doreen Langham, was murdered she had contact with no less than 16 police officers.

Even more distressing, she says, was the fact that not one of them checked the interstate records of Langham's abusive ex-partner, Gary Hely.

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