Excerpted from The Age
Article by Simone Fox-Koob
Adele Murdolo, the head of the Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health, said five years on from the commission they needed to see long-term funding invested in prevention programs for migrant communities.
“If we don’t start thinking of it as long-term ongoing work, then we are really not going to get that reduction in the incidents of family violence down the track.
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“We need to do something about that disconnect between the frameworks and the on-the-ground implementation right across the reform. And unless we get that right, it’s just going to be a little add on that doesn’t make much of a difference to anyone.”