00:02The number of violent crimes against often innocent people, innocent family members is
00:08hugely distressing. It's an urgent emergency for our state and we need to throw everything
00:14we possibly can at it. I mean, we have in the past two years massively increased our
00:20funding for domestic and family violence. We've toughened the bail laws. We've ensured
00:26that magistrates make the decision about whether someone gets bail. For the first time ever
00:31in New South Wales, one third of Remandees in our prison are facing serious domestic violence
00:36offences and we've increased the minimum time in prison for an intimate partner murder from
00:4320 years to 25 years. But notwithstanding those changes, we are still seeing horrible violent
00:49crimes in our community. It's hugely distressing. We can't go numb to it, however. Everything,
00:54this isn't just a government issue. Civic society needs to stand up and do everything
01:00we possibly can to confront these violent, evil behaviours in our society.
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