❓ Question regarding funding allocation for the state government's 20-point action plan to combat family and domestic violence. The Minister's response outlines other initiatives but does not provide a direct answer to the funding question.
AnsweredQoN 760Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
FAMILY AND
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — GOVERNMENT ACTION PLAN
760. Ms S.F. McGURK to the
Minister for Women's Interests:
I have a supplementary question. Given that the minister is
the Minister for Women's Interests as well as the Minister for Police,
and that she sits in cabinet, is the minister not able to say what additional
resources have been allocated to launch the state government's 20-point
action plan, which is supposed to combat family and domestic violence?
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — GOVERNMENT ACTION PLAN
760. Ms S.F. McGURK to the
Minister for Women's Interests:
I have a supplementary question. Given that the minister is
the Minister for Women's Interests as well as the Minister for Police,
and that she sits in cabinet, is the minister not able to say what additional
resources have been allocated to launch the state government's 20-point
action plan, which is supposed to combat family and domestic violence?
AnswerView source ↗
With respect to the funding for a specific initiative in the
portfolio of the minister, Hon Helen Morton, no, I am not across what the
funding arrangements are for that. However, I do liaise, obviously, with the
Attorney General and the Minister for Child Protection and Family Support
around domestic violence and the strategies that we have in train to address
domestic violence. I am working in collaboration with the Attorney General on
new laws with respect to family and domestic violence restraining orders here
in Western Australia. Those new laws will allow for the victims of domestic
violence—mostly women, sometimes some men—to apply for a
violence restraining order at the first onset of coercion, intimidation or
manipulation, which is where the violence starts. They will be able to apply to
the courts for a protection order before the violence escalates from
manipulation and coercion to actual forms of violence perpetrated against the
individual. This is one of the initiatives that I am working on with the
Attorney General.
Mr
P.B. Watson interjected
The
SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I call you to order for the second time. A
quick answer, through the Chair, please.
Mrs
L.M. HARVEY : With the police —
Ms J.M. Freeman interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Member for Mirrabooka, I call you to order for the second time.
Mrs L.M. HARVEY :
As part of the Frontline 2020 reform model, our 24-hour, seven-day-a-week
district support teams have trained domestic violence support people who are
specialists in family and domestic violence available 24 hours a day, seven
days a week, and we are training all of our local policing teams and our
response teams to be able to respond more effectively to family violence. About
a month ago, I launched a DVD that is targeting specifically —
Several members interjected.
Mrs L.M. HARVEY :
Members opposite should be ashamed of themselves!
The SPEAKER :
Order! A quick answer, through the Chair.
Mrs L.M. HARVEY :
Some of the members were actually present when I launched a DVD that our police
diversity unit has put together, in conjunction with our culturally and
linguistically diverse community, to inform the vulnerable people in that
community —
Ms M.M. Quirk interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Member for Girrawheen, I call you to order for the first time. Minister,
quickly.
Mrs L.M. HARVEY :
The purpose of that DVD is to inform the vulnerable people in our CALD
community of what their rights are with respect to family and domestic violence,
where to get help, and to try to engender more trust with our police service.
I have a lot of responsibilities in the domestic violence
space, but I do not have responsibility for the specific question that the
member for Fremantle has asked—and if she was across her opposition
portfolio responsibilities, she would know which minister to address her
question to.
The SPEAKER :
Member for Fremantle, a supplementary. You have already had a supplementary.
portfolio of the minister, Hon Helen Morton, no, I am not across what the
funding arrangements are for that. However, I do liaise, obviously, with the
Attorney General and the Minister for Child Protection and Family Support
around domestic violence and the strategies that we have in train to address
domestic violence. I am working in collaboration with the Attorney General on
new laws with respect to family and domestic violence restraining orders here
in Western Australia. Those new laws will allow for the victims of domestic
violence—mostly women, sometimes some men—to apply for a
violence restraining order at the first onset of coercion, intimidation or
manipulation, which is where the violence starts. They will be able to apply to
the courts for a protection order before the violence escalates from
manipulation and coercion to actual forms of violence perpetrated against the
individual. This is one of the initiatives that I am working on with the
Attorney General.
Mr
P.B. Watson interjected
The
SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I call you to order for the second time. A
quick answer, through the Chair, please.
Mrs
L.M. HARVEY : With the police —
Ms J.M. Freeman interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Member for Mirrabooka, I call you to order for the second time.
Mrs L.M. HARVEY :
As part of the Frontline 2020 reform model, our 24-hour, seven-day-a-week
district support teams have trained domestic violence support people who are
specialists in family and domestic violence available 24 hours a day, seven
days a week, and we are training all of our local policing teams and our
response teams to be able to respond more effectively to family violence. About
a month ago, I launched a DVD that is targeting specifically —
Several members interjected.
Mrs L.M. HARVEY :
Members opposite should be ashamed of themselves!
The SPEAKER :
Order! A quick answer, through the Chair.
Mrs L.M. HARVEY :
Some of the members were actually present when I launched a DVD that our police
diversity unit has put together, in conjunction with our culturally and
linguistically diverse community, to inform the vulnerable people in that
community —
Ms M.M. Quirk interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Member for Girrawheen, I call you to order for the first time. Minister,
quickly.
Mrs L.M. HARVEY :
The purpose of that DVD is to inform the vulnerable people in our CALD
community of what their rights are with respect to family and domestic violence,
where to get help, and to try to engender more trust with our police service.
I have a lot of responsibilities in the domestic violence
space, but I do not have responsibility for the specific question that the
member for Fremantle has asked—and if she was across her opposition
portfolio responsibilities, she would know which minister to address her
question to.
The SPEAKER :
Member for Fremantle, a supplementary. You have already had a supplementary.
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