The first meeting of women’s safety ministers since the election of the Albanese government may finalise a 10-year plan to reduce domestic and family violence. | By Shane Wright auspol
Women’s safety ministers will take their last steps towards finalising a 10-year plan to deal with violence against women and children the federal government hopes will put gender issues at the centre of policymaking.
Social Services Minister Amanda Rishworth hopes the final parts to a decade-long plan to reduce violence against women and children will be settled at an upcoming meeting of state and territory ministers.State and territory women’s safety ministers last saw a draft of the national plan in late March. Since then, the federal government has changed.
Rishworth said the meeting of ministers was pivotal in reaching agreement on the next national plan that will run between 2022 and 2032. Work on the plan has been under way since mid-2020.“Women’s safety is a high-order priority for me and the government has committed to providing the focus and national leadership required to deliver change,” she said.
She has been on the advisory group developing the new national plan as well as a corporate group advising the NSW government.standalone national plan for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island women’s safetyMinister for Women Katy Gallagher said all levels of government had to work more closely together to accelerate gender equality and cut violence against women and children.
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