00:00So today we're going to be getting the first update to Parliament from the National Family,
00:06Domestic and Sexual Violence Commissioner, Michaela Cronin.
00:09We haven't got it yet.
00:10The media are going to be getting hard copies at 12.30 at the National Press Club.
00:13We're expecting it to be tabled at about three o'clock, so after question time, which is
00:17when it will go online and the general public will be able to see what's inside it.
00:21This has been something that's been pretty long awaited in the sector, but also in the
00:25broader community too, because as we know, we're facing a pretty serious crisis in this
00:29country when it comes to women's violence, including an uptick very sadly recently of
00:34intimate partner homicide, people killing their partners.
00:37Now Minister Justine Elliott, she's the Assistant Minister for Preventing Family Violence, actually
00:42spoke to this update a bit earlier in the House of Representatives.
00:46We need to take every opportunity available to intervene early and stop violence from
00:50occurring and part of that is a sharp focus on perpetrators of violence.
00:57These perpetrators are criminals and they must always be held to account.
01:03Men who perpetrate violence need to feel the consequences for doing so.
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