Domestic, Sexual and Family violence commissioner Micaela Cronin
The domestic, sexual and family violence commissioner Micaela Cronin will deliver her first update to parliament today. Her speech will detail the progress of the national plan to end violence against women and children -- focusing on areas where it's lagging.
Transcript
00:00So today we're going to be getting the first update to Parliament from the National Family,
00:06Domestic and Sexual Violence Commissioner, Michaela Cronin.
00:09We haven't got it yet.
00:10The media are going to be getting hard copies at 12.30 at the National Press Club.
00:13We're expecting it to be tabled at about three o'clock, so after question time, which is
00:17when it will go online and the general public will be able to see what's inside it.
00:21This has been something that's been pretty long awaited in the sector, but also in the
00:25broader community too, because as we know, we're facing a pretty serious crisis in this
00:29country when it comes to women's violence, including an uptick very sadly recently of
00:34intimate partner homicide, people killing their partners.
00:37Now Minister Justine Elliott, she's the Assistant Minister for Preventing Family Violence, actually
00:42spoke to this update a bit earlier in the House of Representatives.
00:46We need to take every opportunity available to intervene early and stop violence from
00:50occurring and part of that is a sharp focus on perpetrators of violence.
00:57These perpetrators are criminals and they must always be held to account.
01:03Men who perpetrate violence need to feel the consequences for doing so.