00:00Should Australia adopt a register of convicted family violence offenders?
00:06By not informing women of the violent past of a partner,
00:11when we have that information available, is knowingly putting women in harm's way.
00:16It is a proposal that continues to resurface
00:19as politicians grapple with the ongoing toll of violence against women.
00:24We stay home with our partners because surely we're safe,
00:27but when nobody is looking, one of us dies every five days.
00:32Advocates argue a public or controlled access register
00:36could improve transparency, protect potential victims
00:40and strengthen accountability for repeat offenders.
00:44Victoria Police first submitted the register idea
00:48to the Royal Commission into Family Violence in 2015.
00:52While hundreds of recommendations from that inquiry
00:55have since been implemented across the country,
00:58a National Family Violence Offender Register was not among them.
01:03Our offices are responding to 140,000 jobs every year.
01:08That equates to about one job every four minutes,
01:12and it actually takes about 60% of the police workload
01:15responding to domestic violence incidences.
01:18All Australian states and territories have a sex offender register,
01:23which holds details of convicted child sexual offenders,
01:26but is not made public.
01:28Other measures, including perpetrator tracking, electronic monitoring
01:33and disclosure schemes, have also been raised as potential tools
01:37to reduce risk and prevent repeat harm.
01:41You really have to make sure that men respect women
01:44and that men do not respect other men who disrespect women.
01:49So there's a huge role in this for men.
01:51They're not just the perpetrators.
01:53They're also the friends and relatives, employers, employees, colleagues
01:57of men who commit these crimes, and they have to be held to account.
02:11Generally seeing a lot will be held to their experiences are,
02:12the people who have twoPHO uppercыл back to their drowns.
02:16And that would be taken to a rule for them.
02:17Well, the people that do not give some system
02:34taking into account.
02:36Thank you to the audience that this
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