Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

The national road toll serves to draw the public's attention to the ongoing epidemic of deaths on our roads and to change behaviour. The number of women killed by violence is a statistic that also should be published widely to draw attention to this national crisis and help deter it. Destroy the Joint, a volunteer-run project, publishes it. Why hasn't the government established a close-to-real-time, national, government-run toll to track the national crisis? If a small organisation can make credible data available within days, why is the government so slow to act?