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

Senator McAllister, I am quite happy to say that the comments I made to you in response to some questions that you asked me during estimates I am happy to make again here. In response to a question from you in this place I incorrectly referred to a measure as an announcement. It was a new measure in the budget. It had previously been announced as a budget measure. It is not unusual for budget measures that you preannounce them. In fact, there are many, many budget measures that are preannounced, and you would have done the same thing when you were in government. I accept I made that statement to you. I did use the word 'announcement' when I should have used the word 'measure', but there were new measures in the budget. There were measures, as I said, in relation to the 1800RESPECT number, which is a tremendously important hotline that women who are the victims of domestic violence can contact to find out where they may be able to receive help should they find themselves the victims of domestic violence. Equally, the Help is Here campaign provides women with similar advice.