Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Waters for her second supplementary question. The government, of course, has committed $7.7 billion in funding for gender based violence and legal assistance over our 2½ years in government. This is on top of almost $2 billion to expand the single parent payment, which provides critical financial support for women and children escaping violence and over $10 billion to expand social and affordable housing and crisis accommodation, which we know is crucial so that women have a place to go. Funding for frontline services have traditionally been the responsibility of the states and territories, but, at National Cabinet, we extended our funding for the national partnership agreement to provide long-term funding certainty for frontline services and leverage hundreds of millions in— (Time expired)