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

As policymakers, we must not just listen; we must recognise and we must include the voices and the wishes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls and empower them to develop and deliver programs for their own communities. That's why today we announced the $2.8 million to deliver the final stages of Commissioner June Oscar's Women's Voices project and to start the process of drafting a dedicated action plan to provide real and tangible results on the ground for the First Nations women under the next national plan. This will include a summit that will be chaired by Commissioner Oscar. The summit will focus on women's leadership within Indigenous communities and decision-making, as well as deliver on the extraordinarily important issue of family, domestic and sexual violence within those communities. On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women it's important, not just as a government but as a country, that we reaffirm our commitment to Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander women and girls.