The SA Greens will move a motion in the states Upper House next week calling on the Government to hold a Royal Commission into Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence.
The move is backed by advocates for women’s safety, including Embolden SA, the Zahra Foundation and Catherine House and comes after four women in South Australia have been murdered by men they knew in the past week.
Quotes attributable to Tammy Franks MLC:
“The Greens stand in solidarity with advocates and victim survivors and will be doing everything in our power to get this Royal Commission.”
“Right now, we are in the middle of a national domestic violence crisis, and we have just seen four SA women murdered in a week. A Royal Commission will be crucial in identifying barriers, gaps and opportunities for us to save the lives of murdered South Australian women.”
“The incidence of violence against women and children is completely unacceptable. We are failing victims and survivors of domestic violence, and we need to target investment where it matters the most. We need to listen to women and centre them in a whole of Government and a whole of society solution.”