Attacks on women now make up more than one third of all cases handled by the Women?s Resource Centre it was revealed yesterday at the launch of a campaign to stamp it out.

The hard-hitting $450,000 Fight Back campaign features print and radio adverts bringing home the realities of domestic violence which made up 113 of the 321 cases handled by the Women?s Resource Centre last year. In 2004 there were 84 cases. One chilling radio spot features a man reciting amended wedding vows including the promise to ?have and to choke ... to punch and to kick.?

The campaign backed by corporate sponsors has the support of Government. Ralph Richardson, executive director of co-sponsors the Ace Foundation, said: ?The numbers we see represent only a portion of those affected by physical abuse.?

Statistics revealed at yesterday?s press conference also show sexual assaults more than doubled to 29 cases in 1995 ? the highest level for at least eight years.

Asked why violence against women was going up Women?s Resource Centre executive director Penny Dill said: ?In general violence in our community has increased so we are going to have violence in families increase as well.?

She said young people were seeing violence in the home and copying it.