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Leading women's advocate questions ACT government's allocation of domestic violence prevention levy

YWCA Canberra chief executive Frances Crimmins says not enough of the Safer Families Levy is reaching victim-survivors. (ABC News: Tamara Penniket)

A leading domestic violence advocate has accused the ACT government of failing to properly direct funds from its Safer Families Levy to Canberrans experiencing domestic and family violence.

The 2016 levy was introduced after the Canberra community endured four domestic violence deaths in 2015, including mother Tara Costigan who was killed with an axe as she tried to flee with her week-old baby in her arms.

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