00:00 When two young men died, NSW Government introduced mandatory sentences for one-punch attacks.
00:06 When it was terrorism, laws were changed to jail people on the apprehended risk of crimes.
00:12 But when Australian men kill Australian women, the Government's national plan is to take
00:16 10 years.
00:17 In the gallery today, our advocate is here to hold a vigil for the 192 women killed by
00:23 men since the 2021 March for Justice.
00:27 We have a crisis of male violence and women's safety.
00:30 Will you be tough on this domestic terrorism by leading an overhaul of national sentencing
00:35 laws including AVOs?
00:40 Violence against women is indeed a national crisis.
00:43 We know that when on average once every four days a woman is murdered by someone they know
00:50 by an intimate partner or former partner, that is a national crisis.
00:55 It's a scourge and it's a stain on our nation and we need to do better.
01:02 Governments need to do better but we as a community need to do better as well because
01:06 this is about more than just government action.
01:09 This is about our whole society and how it functions and about respect for women.
01:15 We can change it and we must change it.
01:18 Our record investment in the national plan, I do disagree with her depiction of the national
01:23 plan.
01:24 The national plan from 2022 is a recognition that tragically you can't solve this overnight.
01:32 You need to change behaviour across a whole range of ways.
01:36 We need to change the way the education system works.
01:38 The Royal Commission in Victoria in 2016, one of the things that they found was that
01:44 they needed to get that education about respectful relationships in school and that has happened.
01:50 One of the things about the national cabinet meeting I convened was that people talked
01:54 about replicating best practice and that included the issue of sentencing.
02:00 I note that New South Wales has made a significant announcement and I support it.
02:04 The stronger action for people who have AVOs, stronger action to make sure that people aren't
02:10 just released into the community who are a threat to a woman.
02:17 Very strong action indeed and I know that other states, premiers and chief ministers
02:23 as well agreed at that meeting to look at all of their laws including bail laws and
02:28 to return to the national cabinet.
02:32 They are state laws, they're not national laws but we can encourage best practice when
02:38 it comes to that.
02:41 We through that national cabinet meeting established permanently the Leaving Violence
02:47 Payment and tonight's budget will see $925 million for that.
02:54 Tonight's budget will also see a billion dollars directed towards crisis and transitional
02:59 accommodation for women and children escaping domestic violence.
03:04 In addition to that the Minister for Communications is doing important work to tackle extreme
03:09 online misogyny which is a real issue and something that will be a real focus as well.
03:16 I pay tribute to the survivors and people who are working so strongly on this.
03:24 A focus on prevention of course must mean a focus on perpetrators as well.
03:29 We know the work will be hard, there are no overnight solutions but we're absolutely
03:34 committed to working including with the Member for Warringah and across this parliament on
03:38 all of these issues to make sure that the scourge which is there be dealt with in the
03:46 best possible way.
03:48 Thank you.
03:49 [END]
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