Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Keneally for that question. I can inform the Senate that Minister Payne, the Minister for Women, is convening a meeting of all the women's safety ministers next week. This will be a very important meeting, accelerating the work already underway. Then, in the following week, the Council of Australian Governments will be updated on the work that has been undertaken as part of the Fourth Action Plan of the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children. This is all work we do in partnership, of course, and alongside the state and territory governments, who are on the front line in relation to this issue. This has, of course, been a bipartisan initiative all the way through. I again acknowledge that this work—to establish the first action plan—commenced under the Rudd and Gillard governments.