{"id":49508,"date":"2026-07-13T06:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T06:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/49508\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T06:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T06:31:13","slug":"queensland-government-defends-40m-cut-to-family-violence-prevention-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/49508\/","title":{"rendered":"Queensland government defends $40m cut to family violence prevention funding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Queensland’s embattled Domestic and Family Violence (DFV) Prevention Minister has defended millions in funding cuts.<\/p>\n

Funding allocated for the state’s domestic and family violence prevention has been reduced by almost $40 million from last year, state budget papers show.<\/p>\n

The Labor opposition says the cuts are “indefensible”.<\/p>\n

Family and domestic violence support services:1800 Respect National Helpline<\/a>: 1800 737 732DV Connect Women’s Line<\/a>:\u00a01800 811 811MensLine<\/a>: 1300 789 978Kids Helpline<\/a>:\u00a01800 55 1800Lifeline<\/a>\u00a0(24-hour Crisis Line): 13 11 14<\/p>\n

The state government had allocated $340.7 million towards DFV prevention for the 2026-27 financial year.<\/p>\n

The latest budget papers reveal that $379.2 million had been allocated in the 2025-26 budget, but only $356.5 million was spent.<\/p>\n

DFV prevention Minister Amanda Camm said that funding was for a “specific” recommendation from the women’s safety and justice taskforce, which was “time-limited” and had been “delivered”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The state government has allocated $340.7 million towards DFV prevention in the 2026-27 financial year. (ABC News: Michael Lloyd)<\/p>\n

“That funding and those actions were not frontline,” she said.<\/p>\n

The taskforce made 277 recommendations to the state government across two reports handed down in 2021 and 2022.<\/p>\n

She said all of the recommendations were now part of the state government’s DFV strategy.<\/p>\n

“We came to office, and we delivered upon the coercive control legislation. It is now law,” she said.<\/p>\n

“That was an action under the women’s safety and justice taskforce recommendations.”<\/p>\n

She said she was working with other government agencies to ensure that every single recommendation was delivered.<\/p>\n

“We are currently on track to do so,” Ms Camm said.<\/p>\n

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Minister Amanda Camm said the reduction is due to a “time-limited” recommendation. (ABC News: Glenn Mullane)<\/p>\n

Ms Camm said the state government was further delivering on initiatives such as hope hubs, recovery hubs and electronic monitoring pilots.<\/p>\n

“Our government is squarely focused on delivering protections for victim survivors,” she said.<\/p>\n

‘No ifs, no buts’<\/p>\n

Opposition leader Steven Miles said funding was “cruelly cut” from the department in the budget.<\/p>\n

“They should reverse the cuts that they made to domestic and family prevention services.”<\/p>\n

Shadow Women Minister Shannon Fentiman said it was “indefensible”.<\/p>\n

“I cannot believe it’s 2026 and this government, rather than prioritising supporting women and children escaping violence, are cutting funding,” she said.<\/p>\n

“No more excuses, no ifs, no buts.”<\/p>\n

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Shannon Fentiman says the cuts are “indefensible”. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

Ms Fentiman said the last report on the taskforce, which was set up by Labor, was handed down at the end of 2024.<\/p>\n

“We have no idea whether or not any of those recommendations have been implemented,” she said.<\/p>\n

“We have no idea about what funding has been put aside to continue that work because this government has failed to table a report in the parliament.<\/p>\n

“And now we see funding cut for domestic and family violence prevention and the work that this taskforce set the Queensland government to do to keep women and children safe.”<\/p>\n

Police Minister Dan Purdie however said there had been no reduction in funding for “frontline DV services”.<\/p>\n

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Police Minister Dan Purdie said frontline DV services will not be affected. (ABC News: Luke Bowden)<\/p>\n

“In fact, we are throwing everything into it,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I think we’ve shown we’re doing everything we possibly can to protect victims.”<\/p>\n

He said the recommendation had temporary funding provided under Labor.<\/p>\n

“It’s pretty disingenuous of [Steven] Miles to now be demanding how we’re going on their homework for temporary programmes.”<\/p>\n

The ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women\u2019s Chief Investigator, Professor Patrick O\u2019Leary, said that nowhere in Australia can afford to have less funding to prevent DFV.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels that this current funding shortfall is going to really hit the aspirations that we have for eliminating this scourge on our community hard,\u201d Professor O\u2019Leary, a former taskforce member, said.<\/p>\n

He added there was a national plan to eliminate DFV and that Queensland was \u201cvery much central and has been a big player in trying to drive that over the last few years\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be really disappointing for us to lose that momentum and bring about the change that’s already occurring,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it does require adequate resourcing and innovation to bring about that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queensland’s embattled Domestic and Family Violence (DFV) Prevention Minister has defended millions in funding cuts. Funding allocated for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5480,22,21,35809,6278,35810,211,212,35811,11547,14000,5922,12740],"class_list":["post-49508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-amanda-camm","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-domestic-violence-funding","tag-family-violence","tag-prevention","tag-qld","tag-queensland","tag-shannon-fentiman","tag-steven-miles","tag-strategy","tag-survivors","tag-victims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}