Today\u2019s National Cabinet announcement brings total funding for the National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children to $3.7 billion over 5 years, plus additional money for legal services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Any funding increase for the frontline responders to the national crisis of violence against women is welcome, but today\u2019s announcement still leaves frontline services underfunded, with one in four women who seek help at risk of being turned away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Australian Greens leader in the Senate and spokesperson on women, Senator Larissa Waters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cToday\u2019s funding shortfall still leaves one in four women at risk of being turned away from a frontline family, domestic and sexual violence service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhile today\u2019s announcement offers a modest improvement ($351 federal money, matched by states) on funding for frontline services, with a new total of $3.7 billion federal funding under the National Plan over 5 years, it\u2019s still only 75% of the $1 billion each year that the women\u2019s safety sector needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMoney on paper is no guarantee that services will actually receive the money – previous federal funding under the Plan has disappeared into state government administration with no transparency on where it ends up – and services say they aren\u2019t getting it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLikewise the promised 500 federally funded frontline workers have still not materialised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s disappointing that National Cabinet kicked the can down the road on alcohol sales, and that there is still prevarication from the federal government on regulating gambling advertising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe welcome funding to establish national standards for men\u2019s behaviour change, something the Greens have asked for for several years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOn the legal services funding of $3.9 billion over five years, we will examine the detail once it becomes available, but it was concerning to hear the PM note that only $500 million will go towards additional workers for the legal sector. We know that 1,000 women are turned away from women\u2019s legal services each week, and we fear $500 million will not fix that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is about priorities. If Labor funded just one less nuclear submarine they would have more than the amount required to fully fund frontline family, domestic and sexual violence services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey could scrap the $11 billion annually they are currently handing to the fossil fuel industry. Or the $15.9 billion annually to property investors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWomen are missing out when submarines, gas companies and property barons are showered with public money.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today\u2019s National Cabinet announcement brings total funding for the National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children to $3.7 billion over 5 years, plus additional money for legal services. Any funding increase for the frontline responders to the national crisis of violence against women is welcome, but today\u2019s announcement still leaves frontline services underfunded, … Continue reading “Frontline services funding is welcome, but one in four women still not getting the help they need”<\/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-28934","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\/28934","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=28934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28935,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28934\/revisions\/28935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}