Budget 2022 fails to address endemic levels of gender-based violence

Unlike Covid-19, domestic, sexual, and gender-based violence is not a problem we can live with. The Government must significantly increase their expenditure on helping already under-resourced services to stop it

Over the past two years, an under-resourced network of frontline domestic violence services responded to 19 new women and three new children daily.

Given the societal, economic and political challenges our country faces, Budget 2022 may have been the most anticipated budget since the recession.

Responses to budget details revealed so far have largely focused on the pandemic, healthcare, and the climate and housing crises. Which begs the pertinent question — has gender-based violence fallen off the radar once again?