Tanya Plibersek (Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Housing) Share this | Hansard source

You will have another chance in a minute. So we are focusing our communications on areas where we can have the maximum impact on behaviour change. That is our intention.

We are working on a Respectful Relationships campaign with schoolchildren in particular. At the moment the Victorian government is mapping all of the different campaigns that work in schools in particular. We will be building, with our national council on violence against women, on that work to produce a resource that goes to every school—for example, to target young men and young women about building respectful relationships. We are spreading the White Ribbon Day campaign, which has been so successful in encouraging men to take responsibility for sexual assault and domestic violence, out into regional and rural areas. We are using our national council to develop, as well as the measures that we have already committed to that are on the public record, a broader strategy that allocates responsibilities to different levels of government and different bodies in our community, and that sets measurable time lines and markers of what we want to achieve in the area of domestic violence, because we know that it is going to take a substantial amount of on-the-ground work to change the attitudes of young people in particular. (Time expired)

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