The Victorian government is overhauling laws to try and shift cultural attitudes towards family violence. Intervention orders stalking and social media are just some of the areas being targeted in an attempt to make women safe.
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00:00 Samantha Murphy, Hannah Maguire, Rebecca Young, just three of the 31 women allegedly killed
00:07 in Australia by men this year.
00:13 That needs to stop.
00:15 To do that, the Premier is looking to the next generation.
00:19 Respectful relationships, consent.
00:21 With more intensive school programs to foster respectful relationships and healthy masculinity.
00:28 This is about embedding change and it is about embedding positive change.
00:33 It's part of a renewed and targeted push from the state.
00:37 Social media giants and misogynistic influencers like Andrew Tate are in government sites.
00:43 We need to make sure that those attitudes are challenged and challenged in all of the
00:48 other places that young people spend their time.
00:51 Family homes will also be made safer with a focus on removing perpetrators to where
00:56 they can be better monitored.
00:58 The problem with women and children having to flee or having to leave home, they're
01:03 leaving most often to homelessness.
01:05 The state also wants to beef up intervention orders by making them longer and less onerous
01:11 on victims to get them and giving police greater powers to issue them.
01:16 Family violence intervention orders have the ability to provide us with long term solutions.
01:22 However ankle bracelet monitoring for violent men has been ruled out.
01:27 Laws to crack down on stalking will also be introduced, although they're long overdue.
01:33 Three years ago the Law Reform Commission recommended such laws be passed by the Parliament.
01:39 Some of these changes do look sensible but we just don't understand why the government
01:43 is avoiding the big issues like changing the definition of stalking and kicking it down
01:47 the road for another year when we're losing women every single week.
01:51 The work continues for safer female futures.
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