STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS

Ms KARA COOK (Bonner) (13:56): Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Today also marks the beginning of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence. In 90 seconds, here are 16 things Labor has delivered to keep women and children safe: (1) invested more than any Australian government ever, more than $4 billion, including for front-line services; (2) made the living against violence payment permanent—$5,000 to help women leave abusive relationships; (3) invested $1.2 billion for emergency and transitional housing; (4) legislated 10 days of paid domestic and family violence leave; (5) invested $3.9 billion in the new national access to justice partnership, including an extra $800 million for family violence and legal services; (6) introduced legislation to make sure that our social security system cannot be weaponised by perpetrators of abuse; (7) reformed the family law system; (8) worked with states and territories to improve criminal justice responses to sexual violence; (9) invested $1 million to update the national framework for action to prevent alcohol related family violence; (10) taken action to deal with high-risk perpetrators, investing over $82 billion; (11) invested $81 million for services like child-specific counselling; (12) launched an inquiry into domestic, family and sexual related suicide; (13) legislated the higher national education code to prevent and respond to gender based violence; (14) implemented all the recommendations of the Respect@Work report; (15) legislated a positive duty for employers; (16) made it illegal to— (Time expired)