Violence against women is one of Australia's great shames, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says.
The prime minister has unveiled a $100 million package to tackle the issue, including measures to better train frontline officers and funding for 20,000 mobile phones for at-risk women.
"Violence against women is one of the great shames of Australia. It is a national disgrace," he told reporters in Melbourne on Thursday.
One in six Australian women has experienced violence from a current or former partner, and 63 women have been killed so far this year, the government says.
Mr Turnbull said Australia faced a challenge in addressing the consequences of violence and making women safer on the streets, at home and online.
Australia should be known as a nation that respects women.
"Disrespecting women does not always result in violence against women," he said.
"But all violence against women begins with disrespecting women."
Leaders had to make it a national objective to make sure Australia was more respecting of women, Mr Turnbull said.
"We have to make it as though it was un-Australian to disrespect women," he said, noting this would be a big cultural shift.
The prime minister cited research showing one in four young men thought it was acceptable to drunkenly slap their girlfriends.
"Let's make it our resolution that Australia will be known as a nation, as a people, as a society that respects women," he said.
Domestic violence campaigner Rosie Batty said the government was finally responding to the issue by acting rather than pushing for more research.
"Not just talking the talk but now starting to walk the walk," she said.
"But we have a long way still to go."
Former Victoria police chief commissioner Ken Lay, also on the government's domestic violence taskforce, said it was an opportunity for cultural change.
Further research yet to be released painted a "sad" tale of the attitudes of teenage boys and men towards women.
It underscored the amount of further work to be done to get this right, he said.
"When the leaders of our country talk about gender inequity, they talk about power, they talk about the sense of entitlement, it actually starts moving the culture."
