Senate debates
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Questions without Notice
Budget
2:52 pm
Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source
(—) (): I thank Senator Payman. It is a bit hard to hear at the moment. We have put in place the leaving violence payment, which I referred to in my earlier answer. Also, importantly, there is appropriate indexation of the National Legal Assistance Partnership and the family violence prevention legal services as we consider the review and the report that's been done. That's urgent funding because those roles were not indexed properly—surprise, surprise—under the former government in the legal assistance partnership. There's some extra money to establish a national student ombudsman to help eradicate gender based violence from universities. There's some funding to establish a national higher education code to prevent and respond to gender based violence. We have some investments in providing policy advice to government to prevent gender based violence, particularly as it relates to research in perpetration, and we have targeted investments to support refugee and migrant women, First Nations family dispute resolution pilot— (Time expired)
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