Australian of the Year Grace Tame has called for more national consistency around domestic and sexual violence laws across Australia.
Australian of the Year Grace Tame has called for a consistency between Australian states and territories on sexual abuse and domestic violence laws.Australian of the Year Grace Tame has called for more national consistency around domestic and sexual violence laws to create a stronger legal framework against abuse.
“We need to reinforce our education with laws that back it up,” she told the summit, adding that the onus shouldn't be on victims to fix the system. The two-day summit has brought together women’s advocates, legal experts and community leaders towards guiding the next national action plan. “We must be willing to listen and to do more. I commit to you that these themes will underpin the next national plan,” she said.
“ a National Plan that is focused on early intervention and prevention,” she told the summit. “That is focused on response measures, that does address the many challenges that we are dealing with.”Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw earlier told the summit the focus needed to shift to educating men and changing their behaviour.
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