‘Promise-a-thon’: NSW parties warned tough election talk on domestic violence not enough

(L-R) NSW minister for women's safety Natalie Ward, Premier Dominic Perrottet and police commissioner Karen Webb during launch of Right To Ask scheme, 23 January, 2023. Photograph: Flavio Brancaleone/AAP

For a few weeks in January, it felt like every day delivered something new.

After years of advocating and begging for money, domestic, gendered and family violence groups across New South Wales were getting some of attention and political commitments they had been seeking.