An end to gendered violence
So everyone can feel safe in the community and at home.
Canberra is a place where everyone should feel safe and have equal opportunities in life, no matter our background, ability, gender, sexuality, income or postcode.
But too many people experience harassment, fear, violence and abuse in family or intimate relationships.
One in three women experience abuse in their lifetime, while First Nations women, women from culturally diverse backgrounds, women in regional areas, older women, LGBTIQ women, and women with a disability, are even more likely to experience violence. Around 40% of women have experienced workplace harassment and girls as young as 12 have reported sexual harassment in public.
Gendered violence is a national crisis. And our frontline community organisations are in such demand they have to turn away people seeking help.
The ACT Greens pledge to work to ensure everyone can live a life free of harassment, discrimination, violence and poverty. Our plan will provide more early intervention, rehabilitation, evidence-based prevention and genuinely back domestic, family and intimate violence support services.
THE ACT GREENS WILL:
- Provide adequate and long term funding certainty for agencies that respond to sexual, domestic and family violence
- Fully deliver the recommendations in the Sexual Assault Police Review and the Listen, Take Action to Prevent, Believe and Heal report
- Explore banning non-disclosure agreements in sexual harassment claims
- Ensure domestic and family violence organisations have the same privileged communications with victim survivors as other frontline services
- Establish a pilot program to support young people at-risk of harmful sexual behaviours
- Fund Men’s Behaviour Change programs
- Include early intervention education in primary and secondary school curricula
- Support first responders build the right skills to respond to domestic and family violence
- Examine criminalising coercive control, protect victims in private rental accommodation from property damage costs, and regulate online pornography and gambling
- Provide more funding to community legal centres
- Expand the Justice Housing Program for people on bail for domestic and family violence offences.