The Australian federal, state, and territory governments released a national plan to end domestic violence against women and children within a generation.
The National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children, released on Oct. 17, provides a 10-year blueprint to end “gender-based violence.”
Social Services Minister Amanda Rishworth said it was vital that the Commonwealth, states, and territories were all committed to the same direction.
“We need sustained and collective action across society. This includes providing better support and protection to victim-survivors and holding people who choose to use violence to account,” she said in a media release.
The plan also outlines how gender inequality drives “violence against women,” which includes any sort of physical, sexual, emotional, psychological, social, spiritual, financial, and technology-facilitated abuse….