How much can the budget's $1.1 billion for women's safety really achieve? Two experts give their verdict
- Written by: Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Director, Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre; Associate Professor of Criminology, Faculty of Arts, Monash University
Mick Tsikas/AAPOne of the headline figures in Tuesday’s federal budget was a A$1.1 billion dollar investment in women’s safety.
This came as part of a special women’s budget statement, which pitched the budget as helping provide women with “respect, dignity, choice, equality of opportunity and justice”.
It also comes...
