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ABC News, 22 June 2018:
State of Origin nights
see a 40 per cent increase on average in domestic assault and about a 70 per
cent increase in non-domestic assaults, research out today shows.
The Foundation for
Alcohol Research and Education, which commissioned the study is calling on rugby league
administrators to do more to reverse the trend.
The data was drawn from
six years from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR).
Researchers looked at
the Wednesday nights from two weeks before the State of Origin series to two
weeks following.
The study compared the rates of violence
between State of Origin Wednesdays and regular Wednesdays.
Dr Michael Livingstone
from the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research at Latrobe analysed the data for
the foundation.
"It's not an usual
thing to find spikes in violence or other problems around big events," Dr
Livingstone said.
"But these are
really quite significant jumps."
To explore the causal
connection between the games and the violence levels, researchers looked at
Victorian data, where State of Origin is not as big an event as it is in NSW.
They found levels of
violence on State of Origin Wednesdays in Victoria were no different to other
Wednesdays.
M LIVINGSTON,
La Trobe University, School of Psychology and MentalHealth, June 2018, “The
association between State of Origin and assaults in two Australian states”
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