Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator Bilyk. While we are proud to be investing record Commonwealth funding to end gender based violence, we know we cannot end it and do it alone.

The National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children provides a blueprint for our collective action and outlines the shared role we all have to play in ending violence against women. It's a joint initiative. The national plan also highlights that everyone must play a role in ending this violence, across government, communities, workplaces, sporting organisations, business and the media. If we all pull in the same direction and pull together, change is possible.

I put on the record my support and respect for all of the advocates who've been working year after year, day after day, to end violence against women and children and to make sure that the issue of ending violence against women and children is never off the national agenda.