PHOTO: Delegates raise their hands in unanimous support for an urgency motion on measures to help address domestic and family violence in NSW. This was the first item of business on Monday’s agenda.
The rising number of domestic violence-related incidents led delegates from the Country Women’s Association (CWA) NSW to pass an urgency motion on measures to help counter rising rates of domestic and family violence on Tuesday 7 May.
The motion includes a call to have sustainable and ongoing funding for services for victims of domestic violence.
“That’s particularly important in regional, rural, and remote areas where there are very limited services available,” Yvette Smith CWA State Executive Member for Darling River from the Broken Hill branch said…