Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Families and Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

It is very important that the inquiry that was referred by me and the Minister for Women, Minister Payne, recently to the Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs was clearly around two things. One was to make sure that we didn't miss the opportunity to learn through this particularly intense pandemic the impacts of the kind of crisis this is on women and their children as it related to domestic violence. The second aspect of this that we thought was very important was, as we are coming up to the conclusion of the fourth action plan for the protection of women and their children, we thought it was time we needed to have a look at what was working and what wasn't working. We needed to listen to the experience of the sector and learn how various governments service the community and listen to what they had to say and what they thought we should take into the next plan. Most particularly, we wanted to make sure that we have a platform to make sure all Australians understand that we all have responsibility if we're really going to make a difference.