The prime minister has said Australia has work to do on combating domestic violence, after a series of alleged domestic violence-related deaths in recent days.
Australia has a long way to go in tackling family and domestic violence, the prime minister concedes, as the nation reels from a shocking spate of deaths. Children aged six, two and five months were killed in a fire at their western Sydney home on Sunday after their 28-year-old father allegedly frustrated attempts to rescue them. A day later, a woman was fatally stabbed in an alleged domestic violence-related murder in western Sydney.
But the Opposition and the Greens said the federal government wasn't doing enough. Greens senator Larissa Waters said it was "a drop in a large ocean of need" that will accommodate at most 3 per cent of women and children seeking housing. "Waiting three years until 2027 for these facilities to be built is cold comfort to women and children being killed by family and domestic violence now.
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