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- Growing calls for a sustained approach to the domestic violence crisis
- Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan appears before Indigenous truth-telling inquiry
- Ange Postecoglou says referees are overly reliant on new technologies
Organisations dealing with violence against women are calling a sustained approach to the crisis amid calls for more funding to bolster services.
Community organisations say a holistic approach is needed and say the issue of violence against women cannot be fixed in a matter of months but will take sustained and meaningful changes.
Women's minister Katy Gallagher says the government is keeping an open mind about what measures must be taken to address the issue.
Queensland Premier Steven Miles announced a 20 per cent boost in funding for domestic and family violence services over the next twelve months.
Mr Miles says the safety of the community is the government's priority.
"We know that more than half of assaults that police act upon are domestic family or sexual violence related, one third of property offences, so they are a very significant component of the crimes that our police are responding to it gives you a sense, a sense of the scale of this problem, and the sense of the amount of time, our police are spending helping to protect our community from their loved ones who would seek to assault them."
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Victorian Premier Jacinta Allen has become the first head of government to appear before an Indigenous truth-telling inquiry in Australia.
The premier has spoken at the Yoorrook Justice Commission, which is investigating land injustices.
She says she is ashamed at how little she knew of the massacres of First Nations people on Dja Dja Wurrung country in central Victoria.
"I have learned much that I did not know, in terms of the true history of the dispossession. What the settlers, the colonisers did when they came to Victoria. I did not know of the massacres, I'm ashamed to say. I have learned about the size and scale of the murders and the massacres through my preparation for my appearance today."
The Commission has urged her to act on her words.
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The federal government has announced a $14.2 million package to policing and other community safety support programs in Alice Springs, following a surge of violent incidents in the region.
The package will be added to the $250 million funding that was announced last May to safeguard the Northern Territory and Central Australia.
It comes shortly after a three-week curfew in the area which was imposed after the death of an 18 year-old in a car crash that led to a violent feud.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who is visiting Alice Springs to announce the funding, says all young people deserve an education.
"We're determined to make sure that we make these right investments. That's why we've contributed $250 million through the Central Australia package - a billion dollars combined between the Commonwealth and Territory - to double, literally, the funding that the national government is putting into public schools so that every young Territorean can get the opportunity of a good education."
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The US State Department has found five units of the Israeli military responsible for gross violations of human rights in incidents that took place outside of Gaza before the conflict broke out in October.
State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel told reporters at a press conference that four of the units have remediated the violation, while Israel has submitted additional information regarding the fifth.
Mr Patel said weapons sales to the units will not be affected, while he also declined to offer specifics on what human rights violations were committed or what remediation steps were taken.
Israel's military conduct has come under increasing scrutiny as its forces have killed some 34,500 Palestinians in Gaza, according to Gaza's health authorities.
The International Criminal Court, which can charge individuals with war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, is investigating Hamas' 7th of October cross-border attack and Israel's devastating military assault on Gaza.
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In football, Australian coach Ange Postecoglou says new technologies have taken away the decision-making capabilities from referees.
Postecoglou saw Tottenham lose at home 2-3 to Arsenal and fall seven points behind Aston Villa in the battle for a place in next season's Champions League.
The Spurs had a goal overruled by the VAR and their appeals for a penalty were denied right before the "gunners" scored their second goal.
The Australian says referees have become overly reliant on the VAR in current football matches.
"What matters is that, as I've said all along, games are not refereed at the stadium anymore. They're refereed somewhere else. And no one will convince me otherwise. It's not even re-refereed, it's refereed somewhere else. That's why I don't celebrate goals anymore. I got to wait for somebody down the road, so... I just don't think referees in the stadium anymore have that authority they used to to make decisions. They just go "you know what? I'll just wait till (I) see what the bloke down the road thinks." It's a shame, I don't like it, but it's here to stay."
