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The slacks creek killing is the fourth alleged domestic violence related murder in almost two months. With deaths also on the gold coast, Toowoomba and Charleville, advocates are alarmed at the mounting toll. Labor and the lnp agree Queensland is in the midst of a crisis, the opposition is calling for an emergency response.

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00:02Fronting up with new funding.
00:04My goal is to ensure that those in the system
00:08have the resources necessary to be able to respond
00:11to domestic and family violence. It is abhorrent.
00:14More than three million dollars will be invested in frontline services to improve
00:20triaging of calls for help. Victim survivors need to have
00:24a service system that can be responsive at their time of need.
00:28This will allow us to be more responsive. But the opposition
00:32says that's a drop in the ocean and there's a lack of
00:36urgency. We cannot become numb to women being
00:39murdered in our neighbourhoods. We can't just say thoughts
00:44and prayers and carry on like we have been.
00:47The government has promised to legislate mandatory jail time
00:52for juveniles who commit serious offences while on bail.
00:56Ms Kam says she wants that expanded to high risk
00:59DV offenders. For those domestic
01:02violence perpetrators that are
01:04out on bail, who've committed
01:06serious crimes, who breached that,
01:07they should go to jail. The Minister
01:09has again refused to provide
01:12an update on the Women's
01:14Safety and Justice Task Force
01:16recommendations. A
01:18landmark review into addressing
01:19domestic violence. Hundreds of recommendations were outstanding,
01:24their progress unclear. We are doing
01:27the calm and methodical work to
01:30deliver upon recommendations. I'm sorry,
01:32now is not the time to be calm and methodical.
01:34Women are being murdered. This is a crisis.
01:36They should be in an emergency response mode.
01:39Ms Kam has promised a report later this year.
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