$100m women's safety package announced

[bluecat*dancing]

Great to see the new PM taking this issue seriously by increasing funding and putting other measures in place.

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

Minister for Women Michaelia Cash and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull have announced a $100m women's safety package aimed at combating domestic violence.

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 Turnbull 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." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[amalan11]

I hope it works but unfortunately it seems a lot of these murders that happen are of women who are continuing  contact with their abuser. Look at Rose battys case ,she had taken the son to see his father . Several of  these women who were murdered had been abused many times  before and yet went back to that situation willingly because they still loved or needed the abusive partner.

One thing that would perhaps help is more emergency accommodation and help to reestablish their lives so they take action before they end up seriously injured  or dead. 

It is an incredibly complex issue, as far as education  go's I suspect 98% of men are fully aware its wrong and illegal  yet 1 in 4 men will abuse a partner at some time so I fail to see education will help its a self control issue and how  can the community fix that?

[channys_mum]

From what I can see, the most recent are women who have left their abusive partners. Or tried to.

There needs to be some kind of get out of get out of town support.

[imastawka]

I thought that this was a good move........

The Federal Government has followed through on its threat to block US R 'n' B singer Chris Brown from entering the country because of his history of domestic violence.

"People need to understand, if you are going to commit domestic violence and then you want to travel around the world there are going to be countries that say to you, 'You cannot come in because you are not of the character that we expect in Australia'.

"This is a Government that's not afraid to say 'no'."

 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-27/chris-brown-blocked-from-australia/6807794