Senate debates

Tuesday, 5 September 2017

Motions

Richardson, Ms Fiona

4:46 pm

Photo of Janet RiceJanet Rice (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

The Victorian government deserves praise for launching a royal commission into domestic violence. Fiona Richardson, as minister, was there right through the inquiry and out the other side to implement those findings. She was determined to eliminate inequality in women's lives and workplaces. The Greens thank her for her hard work and commitment on this crucial cause. Her own direct experience with family violence, explored in the most intimate and confronting way by Australian Story last year and rebroadcast last week, informed and drove her groundbreaking work in this area. She has changed the course of history for many Victorian families and communities for decades to come. We owe her our gratitude for those lives she will inevitably have saved. She died before her time and well before her work was done. The onus is now on every one of us to carry on this legacy and fight for a fairer, safer world for women across the country.

Question agreed to.

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