Shayne Neumann (Blair, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Albanese Labor government has announced that 41 organisations across Australia will receive a share of $100 million for new crisis and transitional housing for women and children impacted by domestic and family violence and older women at risk of homelessness. Thanks to the Crisis and Transitional Accommodation Program, a local service provider in Ipswich, the Domestic Violence Action Centre—known as DVAC—which is the biggest and most important domestic violence crisis organisation west of Brisbane, will be funded $2.8 million to help build 10 new dwellings in the Ipswich region for women and children experiencing family and domestic violence and older women at risk of homelessness. This is funded through Labor's Housing Australia Future Fund—opposed by those opposite. The Crisis and Transitional Accommodation Program supports the building, remodelling and purchasing of new or expanded crisis and transitional accommodation. This will help thousands of women and children across Australia.

DVAC do a great job, and I want to congratulate the CEO, Amie Carrington. The service provides support for women and children, particularly from a feminist point of view, and I have dealt with them for many years. I dealt with them prior to coming to this place when I was a practising family lawyer. Congratulations, DVAC, for the work you do.