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Police attend 160 family violence call-outs in Melbourne's south in one week

Police say a man who threatened to kill his wife with a hammer and tried to set fire to a property was just one of dozens of arrests for family violence in a single week in the Dandenong area.

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Police attend 160 family violence call-outs in Melbourne's south in one weekPolice say a man who threatened to kill his wife with a hammer and tried to set fire to a property was just one of dozens of arrests for family violence in a single week in the Dandenong area.
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