Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Women) Share this | Hansard source

I am delighted, and I would hope that all of us in this chamber recognise, that in December 2015 COAG really for the first time ever made landmark decisions in relation to a collective approach to reducing violence against women and girls. They have agreed on a standard of perpetrator interventions to ensure that interventions with perpetrators are based on evidence, effective and implemented consistently around Australia.

COAG has also agreed to introduce a national domestic violence order scheme. Anybody who has worked with victims of domestic violence or worked in the sector would know that this is something that the sector have been crying for for years and years and years. COAG has finally agreed to implement such a system, and I am pleased to say that every jurisdiction will introduce laws within its parliament in the first half of 2016 to make this happen. Again, these are landmark decisions, and I would hope that all in this chamber appreciate that. (Time expired)