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Australia's politicians state and federal claim their governments are doing all they can to combat domestic violence. But frontline workers in the sector are pleading for more saying chronic under funding and staff shortages continue to put lives at risk.

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00:00As a Western Sydney community continues to mourn three children allegedly killed by their father,
00:09both the state and federal governments have fielded questions about the rising domestic violence death toll across the country.
00:16There's a recognition from the government that we can be doing more.
00:19One of the big dilemmas that we have is there doesn't seem to be a lot of commonality between the alleged perpetrators.
00:26I have to be really clear that this is not a new issue when it comes to family and domestic violence.
00:33We need to look in all the areas of prevention, early intervention, response and healing and recovery.
00:40Less than 48 hours after the children died, 21-year-old Nunya Kuruleba was allegedly murdered by her boyfriend in a Sydney unit.
00:49So far this year, 41 women have allegedly been killed by men in Australia.
00:55In Melbourne, police have charged a man over the death of English teacher Annette Brennan,
00:59whose body was found at a waste management facility last week.
01:03And in Adelaide, a man allegedly deliberately set fire to a home on Sunday while his former partner and her three children were inside.
01:12No one was injured.
01:14Child protection in crisis. End the crisis now.
01:18In Sydney's West today, domestic violence and child protection workers held a rally calling for more funding.
01:25The simple fact is that there's not enough people to get to all the children that need to be seen.
01:29It's not working properly now. We need changes. We need money. We need staffing.
01:33We need to look at why we're losing staff.
01:35Child protection in crisis.
01:37More desperate calls from an under-resourced sector fighting to prevent further tragedies.
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