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There's $1.3 billion for women's safety in the budget and it's nowhere near enough

  • Written by Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Director, Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre; Associate Professor of Criminology, Faculty of Arts, Monash University
There's $1.3 billion for women's safety in the budget and it's nowhere near enoughProtesters rally against against gendered violence and domestic violence in Newcastle on Tuesday. Darren Pateman/AAP

Halfway through his budget speech on Tuesday night, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg acknowledged the women’s safety crisis in Australia.

one in four women are subject to domestic violence and tragically, every 11 days, an Australian...

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