
Amanda Rishworth on strengthening the safety net
Australian Politics
The National Plan to End Violence Against Violence Against Women and Children
On 28 July you and state and territory ministers on the women's safety ministerial council committed to finalised action plans under the national plan to end violence against violence against women and children. What is the timetable here and what actions to end violence within one generation will be taken? Yeah, so we did absolutely acknowledge that meeting that we are still seeing unacceptably high levels of violence against particularly women and children when it comes to family and domestic violence. So this is of an issue of national importance. We are finalising those action plans as they're being put together. But I must say we haven't waited for the action plans to direct how much investment or to allocate investment to this critically important issue