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

I seek leave to, sadly, increase the number of women killed from 11 to 18.

Leave granted.

I move the motion as amended:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that:

(i) 18 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 and persistent emotional abuse is abuse in its own right, and a strong risk indicator for physical violence, and

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

(b) calls on the Federal 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 states and territories; however, we have committed $4.7 million to invest in legislative reform across the country as part of the $1.1 billion Women's Safety Package. This is the single largest investment in women's safety and acts as a down payment on the next national plan, which is currently being consulted upon.

Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) 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.

Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

One Nation opposes this motion. The national crisis is the very existence of violence in our homes and communities—violence against men, women, children, the elderly and those living with disabilities. It is fact that males are less likely to be victims of assault from an intimate partner compared to women, but that's not the whole story. When it comes to violence and assaults from other family members, the statistics show that men and women are almost equally likely to suffer. Australia loses six men per day to suicide, and more men died from suicide in 2019 than the entire Australian road toll of 2019 and 2020 combined. Men are 75 per cent more likely to commit suicide than women. These figures are a national tragedy. This motion separates out a portion of the problem without regard for the whole. To solve a problem first requires understanding the problem and its causes and understanding what drives the perpetrator and the victim. To separate out only a part of the problem will perpetuate the violence.

Question agreed to.