Ahead of the federal budget, Rosie Batty, 2015 Australian of the Year says the current funding model for domestic violence prevention does not encourage collaboration.
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00:00 During COVID, we saw this rapid response. For example, we saw people housed effectively in
00:05 emergency accommodation overnight like that. But we don't see...
00:08 Realistic Centrelink payments. And what have we done? Everything we learned, everything we solved,
00:12 back. Disappeared.
00:15 Take the money, take off the accommodation. You know, it's really, really disappointing to see
00:19 what a compassionate, well, what a necessary solution that we could find. And then to see
00:26 that reversed was quite sad. And it seems like that kind of urgency
00:32 just doesn't seem to be here on this issue, even though, you know, the government has said they're
00:37 very serious about it. It seems like every budget cycle, there are women's frontline organisations
00:41 that have to beg for money and fight for money. The budget's coming up soon. What does the
00:45 government need to do to show you where their money is where their mouth is?
00:48 Who would like to answer that question?
00:54 Not spend it on submarines. Very good answer, Claire. Very good answer.
00:59 The threat of terrorism is more likely to occur in your own home where you are supposed to be safe.
01:06 So, this is difficult because women's voices struggle to be heard, to be taken seriously.
01:14 We over exaggerate. That's the rhetoric. So, we just, we need to keep being noisy.
01:24 We need allies. We need to be loud. We need to be strong. We need to be unified. The way that our
01:30 funding is distributed, you know, it does not encourage collaboration.