George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Far from it. This government has in fact invested more in domestic violence and family violence services than any other Australian government. We've done that in this year's budget. We've done it through increased assistance to the community legal sector, and particularly women's legal services. We've done it through increased funding, which Senator Cash and I announced, for the Third Action Plan for the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children. We've done it through the Women's Safety Package, the signature first-ever announcement of the Turnbull government.

I want to acknowledge my colleague Senator Cash in her capacity as the Minister for Women in this government as being an absolutely outstanding champion for Australian women, as indeed is every minister in the Turnbull government, in defeating and addressing this very, very serious social problem. Senator Dastyari, I would hope that, rather than be flippant, rather than regard a serious social problem as something to score a political point about, you would have taken the matter with due seriousness.