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

We know that domestic violence orders or apprehended violence orders are not worth the paper they're written on unless they're enforced. Recently, Minister Cash, Minister Payne and I convened an extraordinary meeting of our state and territory counterparts, women's safety ministers, attorneys-general and police ministers to discuss how we can all work together to improve safety outcomes for women and their children, particularly in the wake of the terrible tragedies that we have seen again this year. States shared details of what they were doing. Last week, I visited Tasmania and had the opportunity to talk to the Tasmanian team down there about a GPS monitoring system that they have in place on high-risk people subject to domestic violence orders. The fantastic news is that we have seen an 82 per cent decrease in the number of AVOs that have been breached since people have been on this program and a 100 per cent reduction in the amount of stalking that's being reported. That's a fantastic initiative and I congratulate the Tasmanian government.