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 It seems like every budget cycle there are women's frontline organisations that have to beg for money and fight for money.
00:05 The budget's coming up soon. What does the government need to do to show you where their money is where their mouth is?
00:11 Who would like to answer that question?
00:15 Not spend it on submarine!
00:18 Very good answer, Claire. Very good answer.
00:21 The threat of terrorism is more likely to occur in your own home, where you are supposed to be safe.
00:28 So this is difficult because women's voices struggle to be heard, to be taken seriously.
00:36 We over exaggerate. That's the rhetoric.
00:41 So we need to keep being noisy. We need allies. We need to be loud. We need to be strong. We need to be unified.
00:51 The way that our funding is distributed does not encourage collaboration.