Criminologist Michael Salter says leaders must be prepared to take a wider view of domestic violence prevention when national cabinet convenes for an urgent meeting.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese must tackle Australia’s substantial problems with alcohol, gambling and children’s access to pornography if he wants to protect women, says an expert who helped shape the national plan to stop domestic violence.
, an advocate and organiser who accused Albanese of lying when he said he was denied the opportunity to speak at a women’s rally in Canberra on Sunday. Footage emerged of Albanese telling her: “Do you want me to speak or not? I’m the prime minister.” “This is hard work and demands a real cultural change ... This is not a women’s issue, it is a national crisis and we have to take responsibility for addressing it as a nation.”In a challenge to Australia’s dominant strategy of changing men’s attitudes to prevent gendered violence, Salter said the government needed to be more practical about its policy opportunities.
Salter said the past decade had shown that changing attitudes was difficult and did not always correlate with changes in behaviour. “When we only focus on respect and gender equality, we don’t tackle some of these tougher questions. We know calls to domestic violence hotlines spike on the nights of football grand finals. We know that alcohol is in the mix there. We know financial stress, gambling, drinking: while they don’t cause domestic violence, they can certainly increase its impact.”
Daniel was positive about the national plan but said “we can do more” than the $2.3 billion in measures it contained. She said advocates had consistently been calling for $1 billion a year to fund domestic violence prevention programs, crisis services and community legal services, as well as to develop new evidence-based programs and expand them.
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