Today, a virtual national summit on women’s safety will take place, hoping political leaders will make a “sincere commitment” to reduce sexual, family and domestic violence through extra funding.
The summit follows this year’s earlier allegation by Brittany Higgins that Parliament House did not act on her complaints, but instead treated it as a “political problem”.
The existing 12-year strategy, which was unveiled by the Gillard government in 2011, will lapse in June next year.
Currently, the government is drafting a new 10-year plan.