Brisbane-based charity Safe Haven Community is calling for an Australia-wide network of spare rooms in private homes to help domestic abuse victims escape before violence erupts.
Safe Haven Community works with people who are not facing direct physical threats and before the problems fester due to lack of support for ‘non-emergency’ situations.
Executive director Paul Perry says the people who donate the rooms and are police-checked and ready to go and inducted, with 150 spare rooms already volunteered around south-east Queensland.