$100m funding

[bluecat*dancing]

http://www.9news.com.au/national/2015/09/24/06/45/prime-minister-malcolm-turnbull-to-commit-41m-to-t...

Mr Turnbull and Ms Cash were joined by domestic violence campaigner Rosie Batty and former Victoria Police commissioner Ken Lay in Melbourne today to announce the package.

 Some key aspects of the new package are:

• $17m to expanding existing programs aimed at keeping women safe at the home, including improving access to CCTV and locks.

• $5m to the 1800 RESPECT hotline

• $2m to MensLine services • $21m to help Indigenous women and those in remote communities

• A $12m trial with state governments to use GPS tracking for high-risk domestic violence offenders

• $5m to 20,000 mobile phones across Australia for women whose access to technology is compromised

• $5m to developing and improving the Safe Schools website

• Improved training for frontline services, including general practitioners, doctors, nurse, magistrates and police

• Identifying domestic violence hotspots

 Mr T

urnbull said disrespect of women was a key root cause of family violence and needed to be addressed. "This is a big cultural shift," he said. "Of course, the vast majority of men do respect women. But many do not. "We must make it un-Australian to disrespect women. "We must become a country which is known for its respect of women."

[moonflyte]

No you didn't. I was replying to the bulk of your post. Others made that comment.

[polksaladallie]

The "bulk" of my post was that in general the population is becoming immune to violence, and therefore apathetic, and not receptive to knowledge of particular aspects.

[moonflyte]

I'm agreeing with you, but the violence we saw at the footy when a man punched out an off duty police officer, how is that going to be stopped? will that perpetrator be jailed? and if not why. 

Then  we see road rage on the M2 stopping traffic, rage that no amount of education will modify.

I agree with PM Turnbull that we need to be a country that respects women but we also need to be a country that respects everyone.

The hate and vitriol we were subjected to on twitter about PM Abbott and Fairfax, never seen before in our political history, the total disrespect of the highest office in the land parroted by  the ABC and regurgitated on here, how is that type of behaviour going to be modified, the bullying of children. 

It's a society problem and it is a new paradigm we have embraced imo. Sadly the world has moved on and it's not such a pretty place.

[polksaladallie]

And I agree with you.  I feel sick when the PM goes on and on about "respect for women".  "Australia will become known as a country which respects women".  The problem is much deeper than that.

As I said, education begins at birth, not after someone is punched.

[bluecat*dancing]

Violence does need to be addressed but the money allocated to DV should not be used for other purposes.

As of today, 66 women have died this year as a result of violence.

[bluecat*dancing]

Quite often, women have no other option but to leave because their lives, and thier children's, are at risk if they stay and/or the abuser will not leave. Once th e abuser is no longer in the house, there is a Safe At Home program that can be put in place depending upon what funding is available. 

DV  comes in many different forms and is insidious, and often takes place over a number days, weeks or years..

[bluecat*dancing]

I should add the violent person can be made to leave.

[lal-au0]

so first they take away 300 million, then they give back 100 million and everyone is happy and applauds turnbull for that. great.

[bluecat*dancing]

Its a start and is preferable to the further removal of funding but, yes, reinstating the entire $300m , at least, would have been better.