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

I thank Senator Smith for that supplementary and for highlighting the need to continue to look at the best ways for action to be taken under the national plan, and there is a very significant conversation around holding perpetrators to account and also ensuring that we are investing in prevention. We are investing in programs to support children and young people to heal, recover and break the cycle of violence; delivering prevention and consent campaigns that people may have seen on TV or through social media; holding perpetrators to account through funding programs that intervene earlier with men who want to change their behaviour; taking action to deal with high-risk perpetrators, including investing to detect, monitor and intervene with repeat offenders; and introducing legislation to make sure our social security system can't be weaponised by perpetrators of abuse. There is more work to do on that, and I will work with Minister Plibersek on it.