The NSW Govt Has Announced A $100M Package For ‘Women’s Safety’ So Here’s Yr 3-Min Explainer

The NSW Government has announced it’ll include an almost $100 million package focused on women’s safety in its next budget. But what will that investment actually look like? It’ll focus on three key areas: street safety, domestic violence services and workplace sexual harassment. The biggest investment is in Safer Pathway. Safer Pathway is a program which is essentially designed to support victim-survivors of domestic and family violence across NSW. However, to access Safer Pathway, the incident of family or domestic violence needs to be reported to the NSW Police or another service. Then, the victim-survivor is supposed to be referred to specialist domestic and family violence services. According to the NSW Department of Communities and Justice, “a specialist domestic violence support worker contacts the victim-survivor by phone to offer support and assistance”.