Prime Minister Anthony Albanese joins a crowd of women outside Parliament House, gathered in the Canberra chill to acknowledge a bill to write paid domestic violence leave into law.
Huddled on the lawns of Parliament House in the frosty Canberra air, women's safety advocates gathered for a vigil to remember women who have lost their lives to violence and those still trapped within their own homes.
Addressing the crowd, Australian Council of Trade Unions president Michelle O'Neil said the new entitlement would remove the "wicked choice" that confronts many women of either going to work or trying to escape."It isn't something that began yesterday, this is a decade of struggle, a decade of campaigning workplace by workplace."
"With this measure today, we will take a small step of progress, we hope that it goes through the parliament with the support of the entire parliament," he said. A crowd gathered on the lawns of parliament to remember women who have lost their lives to violence and those still trapped within their own homes.
"The fact is, that not every sense of grief arises from a declared war, but from a conflict that takes place around us every single day," he said."Every death here is so avoidable, so avoidable, every death here is a tragedy."
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