Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Families and Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator Askew, for your follow-up question. The government is making sure that the funding of these new safe places is in place in rural and regional communities, as well as in city areas, and specifically targets culturally and linguistically diverse women. From Rockhampton to Shepparton, from the Illawarra to the outskirts of Perth, about 50 per cent of the projects that we will be funding will support women in rural, regional and remote areas, who, in the past, have tended to have very limited options for access to this kind of service. Unfortunately, we also know that Indigenous women are overrepresented in the statistics in family and domestic violence. That's why housing providers are working directly with organisations who are able to provide culturally appropriate services, such as the one that we announced in Adelaide last week, which is Aboriginal women providing support for Aboriginal women and their children.