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LAURA TINGLE, CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: The anger and despair about the rising death toll of Australian women didn’t just spill out into the streets yesterday, but into very public confusion about who should or shouldn’t speak at the rally in Canberra.
As of yesterday, 27 women had been killed in just the first four months of this year, compared to 64 in 2023 and 56 in 2022. LAURA TINGLE: It’s not that there has been no attempt to address the problem. Advocacy groups were heavily involved in the development of the national 10-year plan to end violence against women and children which launched in October 2022.
CHRIS MINNS, NSW PREMIER: The status quo isn’t working, and we need to be looking at change to keep vulnerable people safe particularly as they are awaiting justice. The online debate will run into the gauntlet of the wider freedom of speech issue but for people on the frontlines of the domestic violence crisis there are more pressing concerns.
We recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first women's refuge in New South Wales creating a place for women to escape from violence in the home. That's 50 years ago. How much has changed? HANNAH TONKIN: That's a really difficult question and it is a question that everyone is grappling with all across the country right now.
HANNAH TONKIN: There needs to be a range of different measures. We absolutely need to see measures in the justice system and there has been a lot of focus on that lately. HANNAH TONKIN: That is definitely something that needs to be looked at as well. We need to look at what conditions are placed on AVOs. We need to look at the penalties for breach and particularly when we are talking about repeat offenders and high-risk offenders so all of this needs to be on the table and all of it will be on the table.
So that early intervention piece is really important particularly with perpetrators and looking at behaviour change. I would be looking at investing there as well as some of the other things we talked about. HANNAH TONKIN: We definitely need more resources for frontline services. That's clear, but we also need to look at systems changes.
SARAH FERGUSON: You mentioned before this is in relation to attitudes and how attitudes are formed. You've spoken of the need to intervene when it comes to online harm and what it is that our young people are seeing. How do you do that? Is that the work of the eSafety Commissioner? What do you want to see change in order to protect young people?
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