Domestic, family and sexual violence is higher in the NT than in the rest of Australia. That is unacceptable, ruins lives and costs our community dearly.
NTCOSS welcomes moves to modernise and strengthen laws to tackle the issue through the Domestic and Family Violence Bill 2023, but our service providers aren’t given nearly enough funding based on need to do their jobs.
“We have to stop considering domestic violence as a single incident or a single violent incident and really look at a pattern of behaviour that may have occurred over years,” NTCOSS senior policy officer Sophie Hantz told Nine News.
“What is going to make the biggest dent in domestic, family and sexual violence is that systemic reform and that investment in programs, prevention, early intervention, response and healing and recovery.”