Domestic,Family and Sexual Violence Commissioner Micaela Cronin warned that the rates of women dying from family violence required “urgent,national attention” and has convened an urgent roundtable of experts,academics,lawyers,frontline workers and family members for May 7.
“We’ve had inquiries and royal commissions – what we need now is to implement those findings and recommendations,” Cronin told theHerald on Thursday.
“We need to accelerate the commitments made in the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children. These crisis talks will call for specific outcomes,drawing on all that we know,to make concrete change.”
Batty,whose son was murdered by his father in 2014,said authorities in her home state of Victoria had learned a raft of lessons from its own royal commission on family violence,and NSW would,too,as most domestic violence services were run by state government agencies and state-based groups.
Victoria’s inquiry,the first of its kind in Australia,was ordered after a string of family-violence-related deaths in the state. It made 227 recommendations.
“I don’t think there is a need for a national royal commission because we are less than two years into the 10-year national plan,but NSW could benefit from holding a royal commission into domestic violence,” Batty told this masthead.