Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

If members opposite are not interested in programs which are to implement primary prevention to stop violence before it starts, to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and their children, to respect, listen to and respond to the diverse lived experience and knowledge of women and their children—this is the fourth national action plan. In the process of implementing the fourth national action plan, we're also moving, through the Assistant Minister to the Attorney-General—she will be concluding her recommendations to the government on the response to that report and we hope to be able to do that in the not-too-distant future. So that is what the assistant minister is doing right now as we speak. There has already been a response in the budget of $2 million in measures for supporting the response to the Respect@Work report.

But what I am pleased to say is that the fourth national action plan for protecting women against violence is on track. They're important projects, and work is already underway on the fifth national action plan. A billion dollars has been invested by the government in implementing these measures that are designed to support women and protect them against violence, wherever that may occur.

Ms Plibersek interjecting—

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