STORY: Australian PM commits new funding to help women leave violent relationships
SHOOTING TIME: April 28, 2024
DATELINE: May 2, 2024
LENGTH: 00:00:53
LOCATION: Canberra
CATEGORY: POLITICS

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1. various of the Parliament House
2. various of Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in protests on April 28
3. various of the Parliament House

STORYLINE:

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced new funding to help women leave violent relationships.
   
Following an emergency meeting of federal, state and territory leaders to address gendered violence, Albanese on Wednesday announced 925 million Australian dollars (about 598 million U.S. dollars) over five years to establish a new leaving violence program.
   
Under the program, women looking to escape violent relationships will be eligible to access up to 5,000 Australian dollars (3,234 U.S. dollars) in financial support as well as safety planning, risk assessment and referral services.
   
Albanese on April 28 joined thousands of Australians in protests demanding an end to gendered violence. Addressing protesters in Canberra, he described violence against women as a national crisis.

According to the advocacy group Destroy the Joint, 28 women have died violently in Australia so far in 2024 compared to 12 in the first four months of 2023.

Leaders at Wednesday's meeting agreed to implement new measures to address misogyny online, including a ban on the creation and distribution of digitally-generated deep fake pornography.
   
They also agreed that justice system responses to gendered violence need to be strengthened to prevent homicides and that information sharing about perpetrators between jurisdictions needs to be improved.
   
Albanese said that federal, state and territory leaders will hold a further meeting on domestic and family violence between July and September.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Canberra.
(XHTV)