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

Violence against women is a national emergency, and this government, in the budget tonight, should fund it as such. As I've done for years now I'm going to read the names of women killed by violence this year, using records kept by a volunteer organisation called Counting Dead Women—kept not by the government, as those records should be, as we do with the road toll, but by volunteer organisations.

This year at least 28 women have been killed by violence. Their lives and their names matter: Joan Drane, aged 78; Erica Hay, aged 30; Emma Bates, aged 49; Molly Ticehurst, aged 28; Yixuan Cheng, aged 27; Pikria Darchia, aged 55; Jade Young, also aged 55; Dawn Singleton, aged 25; Ashlee Good, aged 38; Tara Morrison, also aged 38; Hannah McGuire, aged 23; an unnamed 66-year-old woman; Mauwa Kizenga, aged 22; Chaithanya 'Swetha' Madhagani; Joanne Perry, aged 53; an unnamed woman in her 60s; Samantha Murphy, aged 51; an unnamed 26-year-old woman; Min Cho, aged 41; Amarjit Kaur Sardar, aged 41; Samira Kammaledine, aged 80; an unnamed woman in her 60s; Vyleen White, aged 70; Antoinette Tozer, aged 76; Alana Martin, aged 30; Keira Marshall, aged 29; Nerol Doble, aged 65; and Alison Robinson, aged 39. The government owes it to these women to fully fund frontline services.