More than $3 billion spent over the past decade on a coordinated national strategy has failed to reduce family, domestic and sexual violence, according to a bipartisan parliamentary inquiry.
In 2009 state and federal officials agreed on a decade-long plan to reduce violence against women and their children, which led to the creation of the Our Watch organisation to prevent domestic violence, the “Stop it at the Start” awareness campaign and national support services such as 1800RESPECT.
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Aaron Patrick was a senior correspondent at The Australian Financial Review.
