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$4.7 billion package to prevent gender-based violence

Published 6 September 2024, 9:34 am
Billions in extra funding will go to help frontline services overwhelmed by the national domestic violence crisis. But questions remain about whether it's enough, and will flow quickly enough, to address what the nation's leaders agree is an Australia-wide crisis.
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