Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Each year, for the past decade, the Counting Dead Women Australia researchers of Destroy the Joint have documented the deaths of women killed by violence. Their interrogation of media, police and court reports gives us the only real time toll of gendered violence. Their work keeps a spotlight on the epidemic of violence to make sure that we do not forget the names of those who have been killed. This is harrowing work that should be done by the government.

Shamefully 40 women have been killed by violence so far this year. Almost all of these women were killed by someone they knew. This is a confronting national crisis, and we must not look away. We need cultural change to achieve gender equality, full funding of frontline response and prevention services, and respectful relationships and consent education in all schools.

Today, I honour the memory of the women killed by violence in 2022: Vitorina Bruce, Sheena Fairfield, Emily Thompson, Christine Barker, Nardia Louise Spice, Louise Hughes, Barbara Willshire, Susan Duffy, Lametta Fadlallah, Amneh al-Hazouri, Tania Trickey, Florrie 'Kory' Reuben, Eileen Liu, Maree Schwarz, an unnamed 82-year-old woman, Shereen Kumar, an unnamed 33-year-old woman, a woman known as AK, Cheryl Johnson, Shirley Kidd, Feebie McIntosh, Donna Howe, Chen Cheng, Danielle Jordan, an unnamed 47-year-old woman, Linda Simon, MacKenzie Anderson, an unnamed 26-year-old woman, Susan Walker, Sharyn Simonds, Kylie Griffiths, Synamin Bell, an unnamed 52-year-old woman, Vanessa Godfrey, Angela Huata, Arnima Hayat, Christine Stephan, Krishna Chopra, Poonam Sharma and an unnamed 45-year-old woman. They are 40 women killed by a current or former partner. That is 40 too many. We need to eradicate this scourge of violence against women.