Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator Waters. As a government, we have prioritised investment in services—more than $4 billion since 2022. But it's not just about the money, because the issues here are bigger than what government can fund. In addition to that ongoing funding for all of those important legal services that women often rely heavily on when they leave violent relationships and that weren't funded by those opposite in any ongoing sense—they have been funded by us in the order of another $4 billion. So we have prioritised important investments. We've also responded by implementing the leaving violence payment and making it permanent so that women have the financial support to leave, but we're also investing in perpetrator responses to break the cycle of violence. Today's report is an important part of that information, as is the rapid review, which we are responding to as well.