Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

As I said in response to the primary question, we don't accept the idea that the target for parity in any way sits that far into the future. What we have outlined is the target for 2030 and the reduction rates that we seek to achieve by 2030. It is very important that the Justice Policy Partnership, with some $7.6 million of funding; the work in relation to preventing harm in Australian prisons and other places of detention; and other funding in relation to support for criminal justice reform and particularly the work of coronial inquiries; as well as family dispute resolution mechanisms—all measures that we have invested in following consultation and engagement with communities—are about making sure we drive those rates down towards parity. We would all wish that it could be done faster and we will be striving to exceed those targets. As I said, we certainly expect to see the rates of reduction increase beyond 2030 as a result of that focus on evidence based policy.