Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Warringah for her question. My government came to office with a clear commitment to increase funding for community service workers dealing with violence against women and children. I announced it in Queanbeyan with the now member for Eden-Monaro—I'm not sure if the fine minister was the member at the time—and with then shadow minister Linda Burney. We announced the most significant expansion, and we put the money in the budget. Now there are people working to protect women and children from domestic violence because of that.

One of the first pieces of legislation that we introduced in this parliament was for 10 days paid domestic and family violence leave. It was one of the very first. That is now in place as a result of my government's actions. We ensured, in our budget process, in the two budgets handed down by the Treasurer, that we provided the funding that in many cases was due to stop on 30 June. After we came to office, we went through it line by line, including in places like—

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