Successive NSW governments have underfunded services for domestic violence victims. It now falls to Chris Minns to step up.
Sydney’s only daytime women’s refuge has a policy that it will never turn anyone away. For 25 years, Lou’s Place has been a safe haven for the city’s most vulnerable and terrified women, many of whom are on the run from violent partners. For plenty of those years, Lou’s Place has also been pleading for state government support. A conga line of premiers and ministers have toured the Redfern refuge, applauding the centre for the incredible work it does in keeping thousands of women alive.
Lou’s Place is just one example. Domestic violence services across the state, especially in regional NSW, can barely keep their doors open. In some towns, refuges do not exist, although we know domestic violence most certainly does. The crisis confronting the nation is not new, but the horrific death of Molly Ticehurst in Forbes on April 22, only days after five women were brutally stabbed to death at Bondi Junction, has reinforced to all that we are failing dismally.
The state government has the backing of the powerful union movement and the collective national anger at women being killed to use its June budget to take real action on tackling domestic violence.It must invest significant money, and likely go into the red, to fund the services and education that experts have been demanding for decades. NSW trails well behind Victoria on domestic violence investment.
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