Fear Shouldn’t Live Here.
Too many Victorians are living in fear because too little is being done, too late, to stop family violence.
Join us to demand different from the next government.
Police and courts should be the last resort but have become the first system response for victim-survivors, often only after years of enduring violent and controlling behaviour. Without earlier responses, Victoria enables the cycle to repeat.
Responding earlier is not only good social policy. It is good economic policy. No area of government is untouched by the impacts of men’s use of family violence – health, legal, police, child protection and even transport systems are responding to the impacts of family violence.
Acting earlier is key to giving everyone impacted by a man’s use of family violence a real chance at recovery and healing. The alternative is continuing to invest in late-stage responses to the same men over and over rather than investing in breaking cycles of violence before they become entrenched or worsen.
No to Violence has a plan to help the next government make earlier intervention a reality. The plan is common sense, focused on what needs to change to avoid costly mistakes stacking up.
