In response to the weekend's rallies the Queensland state government will increase funding to support domestic and sexual violence services by 20 per cent.
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00:00 We know that more than half of assaults that police act upon are domestic, family or sexual
00:08 violence related, one third of property offences.
00:11 So they are a very significant component of the crimes that our police are responding
00:17 to.
00:18 It gives you a sense of the scale of this problem and the sense of the amount of time
00:23 our police are spending helping to protect our community from their loved ones who would
00:30 seek to assault them.
00:32 I was deeply moved by the stories that we heard yesterday at the rally and of course
00:37 this is Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month.
00:41 I want to thank the organisers of that rally and all of those services who support Queenslanders.
00:49 As a government we have done so much on domestic, family and sexual violence but it is clear
00:55 we need to continue to do more.
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