One woman dies a week due to domestic and family violence in Australia. According to Counting Dead Women this number has increased in 2024, with 66 women killed so far.
The women’s safety sector has called for $1 billion per year to be able to help everyone who seeks it, and the federal government is currently providing just under half that.
The Greens will provide a comprehensive policy package to address the national crisis of family, domestic and sexual violence, launching a costed $15 billion plan.
This investment will encompass prevention, frontline response support services, housing, recovery programs, and a range of measures designed to improve the safety of women and children across the nation and improve perpetrator intervention and accountability.
Can you email your MP to call for improved funding?
- Search for your local MP and find their contact email address here.
- Send them an email saying why you believe we need to improve funding for frontline services, or use our pre-filled template here.
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.
Labor has said it wants to end violence against women, but it’s not stumping up the funds to deliver that.
Current commonwealth funding is only three quarters of what the sector says it needs to meet existing demand. This in effect is condemning one in four women to being turned away back to violence.
We have a responsibility to act. Men’s violence against women is a national crisis that demands urgent and comprehensive action.
The Greens are ready to lead the charge with this bold package, which ensures women and children have fully funded support services to turn to, and deep prevention work to enable lives free from violence and fear.
Successive Australian governments have underfunded services that could save lives.
While this government has made some progress, neither Labor nor the LNP have committed to fully funding frontline services. The Greens are committed to ensuring that victim-survivors receive the resources and support they need.
The Greens’ plan prioritises survivor-centred policies, we won’t stop working until women and children are safe.
The Greens policy will:
- Increase funding for all programs under the National Plan to $12 billion over 12 years.
- Provide $10 million to research unmet needs in frontline support services.
- Provide $2 million to establish a national real-time toll of women killed by violence.
- Commission a $4 million ongoing national prevalence study on perpetration.
- Increase the Escaping Violence Payment to up to $10,000.
- Remove the requirement for a portion to be provided as vouchers.
- Allocate $1 million annually for administrative support to ease application and delivery processes.
- Commission a $2 million independent review of the program.
- Provide $10 million to establish a restorative justice pilot program.
- Increase funding by $5 million for trauma-informed approaches to sexual violence in the criminal justice system.
- Provide $250 million annually over the forward estimates to expand the SHLV program across Australia.
- Allocate $1 million for each state and territory to develop education campaigns to raise awareness of the program within Police, Local, and Magistrate Courts.
- Provide $50 million to fund the establishment and operation of two new Trauma Recovery Centres:
- Ruah Housing Project in Perth.
- The Sanctuary by Safe Steps in Melbourne.
- Provide $20 million annually (indexed to the Consumer Price Index), to be distributed evenly between jurisdictions to increase access to victims’ compensation for victim-survivors.
If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, call 131 444.
If you need help and advice, call:
- 1800Respect: 1800 737 732
- Men’s Referral Service: 1300 766 491
- Lifeline: 13 11 14