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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Lucy Bladen

Berry defends family violence tax spend on govt training

ACT Minister for Women Yvette Berry. Picture by Karleen Minney

ACT Minister for Women Yvette Berry has defended spending money from a tax levy to fund programs to tackle domestic and family violence to train public servants.

Opposition spokeswoman on the prevention of domestic and family violence Elizabeth Kikkert said community services had been forced to turn down people who had sought support due to a lack of government funding.

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