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

I am sorry. I misunderstood. I thought you were talking about homelessness because you were talking about a supported accommodation assistance program, a funded service. You said you were talking about a women’s refuge. Sorry, I misunderstood for that reason. The national council on violence against women met for the first time yesterday, so we do not have a forward program for every meeting that they will be doing through the year and I do not yet have dates for broader consultations around the country. They will be going to regional areas and they will be consulting a very wide range of services, women and individuals. The thing I should also say about the council members is that the people we have asked to be part of this are people who have very wide networks already. We have deliberately gone for people who have worked in this area quite extensively and who are immersed in the work of domestic violence or sexual assault. They are people who have been campaigning for reform for a number of years, and they do have very extensive existing networks that they will be consulting along the way as well.

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