Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 1051, standing in my name, by sadly updating the numbers of women killed from five to eight.

Leave granted.

I move the motion as amended:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that:

(i) 8 women have been killed by violence in Australia in 2021, as reported by Destroy the Joint's Counting Dead Women project,

(ii) no national government toll reports on women killed by violence in real time,

(iii) more than 370,000 women are subjected to violence from men each year,

(iv) 1 in 3 women have experienced physical violence and, on average, one woman is murdered every week by her current or former partner,

(v) women are nearly three times more likely than men to experience intimate partner violence and 2.5 times more likely to be hospitalised from family and domestic violence,

(vi) young women, women with disabilities, and First Nations women are more likely to experience violence,

(vii) coercive control is abuse in its own right, and a strong indicator of future physical violence, and

(viii) demand for domestic and family violence services continues to increase; and

(b) calls on the Government to:

(i) recognise violence against women as a national security crisis,

(ii) fully fund frontline family and domestic violence services to ensure all those seeking safety can get the help they need, and

(iii) coordinate a national approach to combating coercive control.