Senate debates

Wednesday, 8 November 2023

Questions without Notice

Domestic and Family Violence

2:51 pm

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

My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister. The murders of five women in just 10 days are a tragic reminder that domestic, family and sexual violence remains a national crisis. It's now 46 women who've been killed by violence in 2023—records kept not by the government, as I believe they should be and as we do for the road toll, but by a volunteer organisation called Counting Dead Women. What has been made clear from the tragedies of the past few weeks is that the current approach is not working. Will the government convene a National Cabinet meeting to coordinate a national response to combat domestic, family and sexual violence? If so, will you champion in National Cabinet, and commit to funding, a national real-time toll of women killed by violence?

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