Safe and Free from Violence

The announcement of the federal election is rapidly approaching. Which means that right now, the leading members of the Labor party are in the process of locking in the funding commitments that they’ll take to the election. We may only have a matter of days before the Labor party finalise and announce their policy on family violence funding.

You can bet they are having a lot of debates and heated conversations about the most important issues to allocate funds to. Within that noisy, crowded environment we need to make sure that funding to address the domestic violence crisis is ...

The announcement of the federal election is rapidly approaching. Which means that right now, the leading members of the Labor party are in the process of locking in the funding commitments that they’ll take to the election. We may only have a matter of days before the Labor party finalise and announce their policy on family violence funding.

You can bet they are having a lot of debates and heated conversations about the most important issues to allocate funds to. Within that noisy, crowded environment we need to make sure that funding to address the domestic violence crisis is high on their priority list.

Our best way to do that? To show them that an overwhelming number of voters care deeply enough to pick up the phone and flood Bill Shorten’s office with calls about it.

Will you pick up the phone and let Bill Shorten’s office know that we want him to invest in the services needed to ensure a safer future for women?

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Good morning,

I am writing to you, as the Leaders of the Labor Party, to urge the Party to commit to increasing your investment in preventing and responding to the the family violence crisis.

I am aware that this week the Government announced an additional $382 million of federal funding to address this issue. I know that their commitment included some important investments in crisis response, accommodation and long-term prevention; but that it failed to address urgent needs across important services like Family Violence Prevention Legal Services, Community Legal Centres and Men’s Behaviour Change Services.

I was glad to hear of the ALP’s commitment of $60 million to support people to rebuild their lives after fleeing abuse this week; and congratulate you on this commitment.

Given the huge scale of this problem, and the number of women whose lives are being ended, or irreparably harmed through the use of violence; I really hope that this is just the beginning of Labor’s commitments to family violence response heading into this year’s election.

As you consider the ALP’s policies on domestic violence prevention and response; I urge you to ensure that there is long-term, secure and adequate funding across all services needed to improve women and children’s safety; and to prevent violence.

In particular, I urge you to commit to maintain the funding the Government has announced; and to increase investment in the gaps in that announcement, including: Family Violence Prevention Legal Services, Perpetrator Interventions and Community Legal Centres.

I believe that all women deserve to live safe and free from violence, and I’m very concerned that right now the full range of services needed to enable a woman to safely escape an abuser aren’t funded to meet demand.

In addition I know that the family violence crisis has a disproportionate impact of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, and that addressing the impacts of this violence requires investment in culturally safe family violence services.

I urge you to make investing in family violence response a priority.

Thank you for your time and consideration,

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