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Dr Ang Jury: Women's Refuge Chief Executive on changing the attitudes that cause family violence · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: So one point three billion dollars in family and sexual
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  Speaker 1: violence prevention spending is set to go under review by
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  Speaker 1: this government. It's the second five year plan and it
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  Speaker 1: follows on from the Labor government's first one, which is
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  Speaker 1: launched back in twenty twenty one. Now the government announced
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  Speaker 1: the review and new plan yesterday which we'll see a
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  Speaker 1: new cross agency plan tasked with doing fewer things, but
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  Speaker 1: doing those things well. And the move has been welcomed
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  Speaker 1: by those working in violence preventions. So let's find out
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  Speaker 1: if that's true. I am joined now by doctor An's
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  Speaker 1: Jury from the Women's Refuge and is the chief Executive.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Good morning Andrew.
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  Speaker 1: Are you welcoming the.
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  Speaker 2: Plan many parts of it? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Well what parts are you not welcoming? That was not
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  Speaker 1: a wholehearted one hundred percent? This is awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Look, no plan is ever going to make all the
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  Speaker 2: people happy all the time. You know, we need to
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  Speaker 2: recognize that the things in there that are like, certainly
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  Speaker 2: the focus on training of frontline civil servants. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's long overdue. We need to be all talking from
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  Speaker 2: the same songsheet.
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  Speaker 1: When the government says we're doing we're going to do
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  Speaker 1: fewer things but do them. Well, that means that some
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  Speaker 1: agencies or groups like yours will be sitting there on tenterhooks,
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  Speaker 1: aren't wondering whether you're the one that will get the
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  Speaker 1: tick of approval?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well that remains to be seen. Andrew, I have
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  Speaker 2: no immediate fears, and I mean we'll face any sort
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  Speaker 2: of review as everyone else would have to.
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  Speaker 1: Do you do you understand Do you understand the new
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  Speaker 1: government's approach and the differences from the past regime. Their
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  Speaker 1: approach is called social investment. Do you understand the difference
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  Speaker 1: between their approach and the past regimes approach?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? No, maybe? Is the answer that I don't think
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  Speaker 2: anybody is really clear in the sector. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: anybody is really clear about what this particular version of
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  Speaker 2: social investment is.
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  Speaker 1: There. There are seven focus areas with phrases like protecting
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  Speaker 1: children and young people, investing in commissioning will, keeping people safe,
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  Speaker 1: and stopping violence. Do these goals seem vague?
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  Speaker 2: They could be tighter. There are measures in the action
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  Speaker 2: plan that do measure progress against those goals. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we haven't had really solid measures before. That's
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  Speaker 2: got to be a move forward.
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  Speaker 1: Good please can be a little bit more confidence as
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  Speaker 1: we head into Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: Look, there's one of the things that's really good in
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  Speaker 2: this plan is a focus on those using violence in
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  Speaker 2: services that are available to them. That is long overdue.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, if we're going to beat this thing,
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  Speaker 2: let's try and turn the tap off and stop the
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  Speaker 2: people that are actually committing violence.
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  Speaker 1: Well, see it, and Merry Christmas. Thank you for all
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  Speaker 1: your service over the course of the year. Okay, bye
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  Speaker 1: bye bye. Now it is a seven to six, tough
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  Speaker 1: job for her, tough job for us, tough job for
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  Speaker 1: the government. For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge,
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