Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 1051, standing in my name, by sadly updating the numbers of women killed from five to eight.

Leave granted.

I move the motion as amended:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that:

(i) 8 women have been killed by violence in Australia in 2021, as reported by Destroy the Joint's Counting Dead Women project,

(ii) no national government toll reports on women killed by violence in real time,

(iii) more than 370,000 women are subjected to violence from men each year,

(iv) 1 in 3 women have experienced physical violence and, on average, one woman is murdered every week by her current or former partner,

(v) women are nearly three times more likely than men to experience intimate partner violence and 2.5 times more likely to be hospitalised from family and domestic violence,

(vi) young women, women with disabilities, and First Nations women are more likely to experience violence,

(vii) coercive control is abuse in its own right, and a strong indicator of future physical violence, and

(viii) demand for domestic and family violence services continues to increase; and

(b) calls on the Government to:

(i) recognise violence against women as a national security crisis,

(ii) fully fund frontline family and domestic violence services to ensure all those seeking safety can get the help they need, and

(iii) coordinate a national approach to combating coercive control.

Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to make a short statement.

Sue Lines (WA, Deputy-President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Leave is granted for one minute.

Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Every single death is one too many. We know that domestic violence against women takes many forms, including coercive control. The decision to legislate in this area sits with state and territory governments. We welcome the work being undertaken by all states to investigate the options for legislative reform and the significant work that that requires. This week the Morrison government launched the $18 million Stop it at the Start national campaign to educate influencers of young people early and ask them to call out disrespect when they see it, because we know that, while all disrespect doesn't end in violence, all violence starts with disrespect.

Question agreed to.