Despite 9 women already killed by violence in Australia this year according to the Counting Dead Women Australia researchers of Destroy The Joint, Labor\u2019s latest budget leaves frontline services underfunded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senator Larissa Waters, Greens Leader in the Senate and spokesperson on Women:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe are still facing an epidemic of men\u2019s violence against women, yet Government funding is not matching the urgency required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe pittance added to women\u2019s safety in last night\u2019s budget won\u2019t rectify the massive funding shortfall for frontline services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhere was the serious investment to keep women safe?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFrontline FDSV services simply do not have enough funding to cope with increasing demand and are still being forced to turn women away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBecause of the funding shortfall, so many women escaping violence still can\u2019t access crisis or long term affordable housing, legal advice or other supports, and can\u2019t begin to recover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLast night\u2019s budget was a missed opportunity for Labor to give full funding to frontline FDV services and properly fund specialist sexual violence services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cRenewed national partnership agreements for funding to the states and territories are welcome, but the amount falls short of what is needed to meet demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe can not keep letting women keep being turned away back to violence, or homelessness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMore Greens in parliament means we can force Labor to act on ending the FDSV epidemic, and keep Dutton out. The LNP\u2019s track record on women speaks for itself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite 9 women already killed by violence in Australia this year according to the Counting Dead Women Australia researchers of Destroy The Joint, Labor\u2019s latest budget leaves frontline services underfunded. Senator Larissa Waters, Greens Leader in the Senate and spokesperson on Women: \u201cWe are still facing an epidemic of men\u2019s violence against women, yet Government … Continue reading “Frontline services still not fully funded in last night\u2019s budget”<\/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-32078","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\/32078","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=32078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32079,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32078\/revisions\/32079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}