In estimates last night the Government revealed that funding to end violence against women and children is less than half the amount the women\u2019s safety sector says is needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Labor continues to ignore the women\u2019s safety sector\u2019s sustained calls for $1 billion in funding, leaving frontline family and domestic violence services with no choice but to turn away victim-survivors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens leader in the Senate and spokesperson on Women, Larissa Waters<\/strong> said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Government has said it wants to end violence against women within a generation but it\u2019s not stumping up the funds to deliver that. The total commitment over the next five years is $2.23 billion, less than half the $5 billion the sector needs to ensure no one is turned away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe government has spoken often about difficult choices in the lead up to the budget, but right now they are choosing to spend $313 billion on tax cuts for billionaires and baulking at $1 billion a year for women escaping violence. It\u2019s worse than disappointing, it’s a betrayal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cViolence against women and children has not reduced since the first National Plan to end it 12 years ago. Labor must provide the funds required for the National Plan to succeed, or they risk squandering another 10 years, and more women\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhile the Labor Government continues to underfund frontline family and domestic violence services, victim-survivors are turned away from crisis accommodation and one woman is murdered every 10 days in this country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLabor are saying one thing about a \u2018women-centred\u2019 budget but doing another by shortchanging women in need. They\u2019re choosing to put tax cuts for our highest income earners – of which two thirds are men – above women\u2019s safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhat more does the sector need to do to convince the government to stump up the funds they need to meet demand and keep women and children safe?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In estimates last night the Government revealed that funding to end violence against women and children is less than half the amount the women\u2019s safety sector says is needed. Labor continues to ignore the women\u2019s safety sector\u2019s sustained calls for $1 billion in funding, leaving frontline family and domestic violence services with no choice but … Continue reading “FAMILY AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FUNDING LEAVES HALF OF WOMEN AT RISK”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21312,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21311\/revisions\/21312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}