Some “mail order brides” have found a way to not have to wait for the 2 years of living together under a temporary partner visa before they’re issued PR.

They go to the police and say their husband was violent— they got assaulted— and this triggers the opportunity for them not to remain with the husband and get PR anyway.

This trick was reported on ABC 4Corners long ago. The government does not extradite foreign women who married violent Aussie men and broke up with them in the first 2 years.