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

Family, domestic and sexual violence is a scourge that's across the entire Australian landscape. We know that it doesn't matter where you live, how old you are, where you've come from, whether you're a first Australian or a new Australian or what your socioeconomic status is, you can be affected by family, domestic and sexual violence. We also recognise that some women are more likely to experience violence than others and that some have greater barriers to accessing critical support services.

This morning we began a series of roundtables that will form part of that consultation, hearing this morning from representatives from the LGBTIQA+ community as well as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We also had a roundtable to interact on issues around perpetrators and making sure that we've got early intervention programs so that we can get in early and stop the violence. The discussion is well underway. I'd like to acknowledge the huge number of people that are participating in their roundtables, some of them under very traumatic situations.