| To prevent family, domestic and sexual violence, and reduce the incidence and impact of such violence, including by: (a) developing prevention measures and strategies in coordination with the States and Territories and non‑government organisations; and (b) supporting and assisting women and children who are at risk of, or are victims of, such violence, including by providing legal, medical, housing, financial and other support; and (c) funding measures to address the drivers of such violence; and (d) funding measures to change attitudes and behaviours that support or condone such violence; and (e) funding prevention, early intervention and response measures targeted towards perpetrators of, and people at risk of using, such violence, including measures to: (i) assist them to change their violent and controlling behaviour; and (ii) provide them with accommodation and other types of support in order to reduce the impacts of that behaviour on women and children; and (f) training students, workers and volunteers to enable them to: (i) provide to women and children who are at risk of, or are victims of, such violence the assistance and support mentioned in paragraph (b); and (ii) provide to perpetrators of, and people at risk of using, such violence the assistance and support mentioned in paragraph (e); and (g) targeting prevention of such violence against, and reduction in the incidence and impact of such violence on, the following groups: (i) women and children; (ii) LGBTQIA+ people; (iii) people with disability; (iv) people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds; (v) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; and (h) supporting education initiatives aimed at preventing such violence and at being in healthy and non‑violent relationships; and (i) supporting and disseminating research into such violence, including research into: (i) the drivers and prevalence of such violence; and (ii) attitudes towards such violence; and (iii) interventions that reduce the incidence and impact of such violence. This objective has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures: (a) with respect to postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(v) of the Constitution); or (b) with respect to census and statistics; or (c) with respect to aliens (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xix) of the Constitution); or (d) for the provision of, or incidental to the provision of, medical services, or unemployment, pharmaceutical or sickness benefits (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxiiiA) of the Constitution); or (e) with respect to Indigenous Australians and particular groups of Indigenous Australians; or (f) with respect to immigrants; or (g) to give effect to Australia’s obligations under one or more of the following: (i) the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, particularly Articles 2, 3, 5 and 16; (ii) the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, particularly Articles 4, 6, 15 and 16; (iii) the Convention on the Rights of the Child, particularly Articles 3, 4, 19, 34 and 36; (iv) the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, particularly Articles 2, 7 and 9; (v) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Articles 2, 11 and 12; or (h) that are peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and cannot otherwise be carried on for the benefit of the nation; or (i) involving the granting of financial assistance to a State or Territory; or (j) undertaken in, or in relation to, a Territory. |