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This blog is now closed.Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastPM responds to reports regional women camping out, sleeping in carsAnthony Albanese has commented on reports that carparks in regional areas are being opened for women to sleep in tents or their cars.We have allocated funding through our Housing Australia Future Fund for emergency accommodation for women and...

This blog is now closedGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastDai Le says funding for domestic violence prevention more important than a royal commissionAsked about social media platform Twitter and Elon Musk’s claims that efforts to ensure a video of a stabbing of an Assyrian priest be taken down globally would constitute a threat to “free speech”, Dai...

Despite having Australia’s highest rates of domestic violence, particularly against Indigenous women, the NT only receives about 1% of federal funding, senators hearFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastShe was a domestic and family violence advocate; a leader in her community and the country. But in 2021 Kumarn Rubuntja was...

Social services minister Amanda Rishworth says government ‘needed to work hard’ to fulfil election promiseFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastOnly a handful of the 500 domestic violence support workers promised by the Albanese government have been hired, the social services minister, Amanda Rishworth, has admitted, saying Labor “needed to...