Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I know that this is a matter that Senator Waters has raised previously. Our commitment as a government is to preventing, addressing and, ultimately, ending this violence. What the Australian Institute of Criminology has been doing for over 25 years is reporting through its National Homicide Monitoring Program. It's data which is credibly sourced through our law enforcement, our National Coronial Information System and other data sources. As appropriate, it provides trend data upon which the government can design policy to prevent these homicides in the future. I understand the matters that Senator Waters raised but don't necessarily agree with them. The most important thing, from my perspective and from this government's perspective, is to eliminate violence against women and their families.