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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2014-05-22" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, First Session (53-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Domestic Violence</name>
      <page num="248" />
      <text id="2014052246c01b0a2fe94176a0000324">
        <heading>Domestic Violence</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2014-05-22">
            <name>Domestic Violence</name>
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        <startTime time="2014-05-22T14:28:16" />
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          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (14:28):</by>  Supplementary question. Could the minister commit to ensuring that these policies are available on the Office for Women's website and individual departmental websites to ensure that other workplaces might consider adopting them?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1821" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. G.E. GAGO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Minister for Employment, Higher Education and Skills, Minister for Science and Information Economy, Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for Business Services and Consumers</electorate>
        <questions>
          <question date="2014-05-22">
            <name>Domestic Violence</name>
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        <startTime time="2014-05-22T14:28:33" />
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          <by role="member" id="1821">The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for Employment, Higher Education and Skills, Minister for Science and Information Economy, Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for Business Services and Consumers) (14:28):</by>  I'm not sure that they aren't. I have to say, I find it quite incredulous that the opposition can stand there in this place poking their finger at what is a very impressive track record when it looks like the Abbott Liberal government is going to reduce money for housing that provides very important shelter for women seeking refuge from domestic violence.</text>
        <text id="2014052246c01b0a2fe94176a0000327">We see a Liberal federal government that has not committed funding beyond, I think, this financial year. There is no further money in the forward estimates. They refuse to comment about the future of that homelessness money and, as I said, a part of that homelessness money here supports funding for shelter and housing for women seeking refuge. I think that the member opposite me should take a good hard look at their own Liberal government and, if they want to make a difference in this space, work on their own federal colleagues to lift their game and commit to future funding.</text>
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