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Angie Gehle is a senior policy and advocacy officer with the peak body, domestic violence New South Wales. She says its critical remote areas receive additional funding because the costs of delivering specialist services to the regions far outweigh those in metropolitan areas.

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00:01Recruitment is actually really difficult also in rural, regional and remote areas based
00:06on transient matters with local communities, based on the low population rates.
00:16There's an attraction to this work sometimes is quite difficult.
00:23Also the costs of the basics around service delivery, so working in domestic and family
00:32violence services will include at times a lot of travel, but that is not necessarily
00:39factored into the funding envelopes for these services.
00:43In some areas you know we've spoken to members that in some areas some workers may need to
00:49stay, because they're travelling such large distances, they may need to stay in another
00:56area for the night.
00:57Again, the costs of accommodation are not covered in those funding envelopes and this work is
01:04very, very specialised and place-based solutions and place-based service delivery is really,
01:11really critical in these areas and it will often look quite different and again the funding
01:18envelopes don't actually really cater for those specialised responses.
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