Response to the March 2025 Federal Budget
With Safe and Equal CEO Tania Farha and No to Violence CEO Phillip Ripper, Principal Consultant Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon spoke with News.com.au reporter Natalie Brown following last night’s federal budget.
Frontline domestic, family and sexual violence services across Australia have repeatedly told us they are stretched beyond capacity. On the ground, this means turning away women and children in crisis due to a lack of resources to cater to demand. Disappointingly, this Federal Budget does not provide the level of funding needed to meet that demand, let alone allow services to expand and improve their capacity.
While this Budget offers some welcome initiatives, it falls short of delivering the comprehensive whole of spectrum funding that is needed from prevention to early intervention, response and through to recovery and healing. There are important conversations underway about the need to engage young men and boys in prevention, early intervention, response, recovery and healing efforts. This is a critical piece of the puzzle, yet this Federal Budget misses the opportunity to demonstrate a real commitment to accelerating this essential work.
Incremental funding is not enough to address a national crisis.
👉 Read the article via news.com.au here: https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/federal-budget/not-enough-budget-fails-to-invest-in-ending-violence-against-women-and-children/news-story/905431e318fca19abae9812eb3331b6d
