- Significant $109.9 million package unveiled to support and keep victim-survivors safe, hold perpetrators to account, expand crisis accommodation, strengthen frontline teams, and raise community awareness
- State Government has committed an unprecedented $707.6 million in new investment to address family and domestic violence since 2017, reflecting unwavering commitment to building safe and inclusive communities across Western Australia
- Announcement during 16 Days in WA Stop Violence Against Women campaign
Premier Roger Cook has today unveiled a $109.9 million package of initiatives to support and keep victim-survivors safe, hold perpetrators to account and raise awareness about family and domestic violence (FDV), at the 16 Days in WA Seven West Business Breakfast.
It takes the total amount invested by the State Government since 2017 to $707.6 million dollars - the unprecedented amount underlining the government's commitment to end family and domestic violence and build safe and inclusive communities.
As part of the package, $34.9 million will go toward expanding Family and Domestic Violence Response Teams (FDVRT). FDVRTsare a partnership between the Department of Communities, Western Australia Police Force, Department of Justice Adult Community Corrections and Family and Domestic ViolenceCoordinated Response Services.
The model aims to improve the safety of child and adult victim-survivors of family and domestic violence through a collaborative approach that focuses on timely and early intervention following a police call out to an incident.
The funding will allow metropolitan FDVRT teams to operate seven days a week, in line with regional teams, and allow for additional staff.
$45.8 million has been dedicated to strengthening the Cook Government's system-wide response to family and domestic violence under the transformative Strengthening Responses to Family and Domestic Violence System Reform Plan 2024-2029.
Initiatives under the plan include the Safe at Home program, allowing victim-survivors to stay safely in their homes once perpetrators are removed, and coercive-control training for first responders and behaviour-change programs for FDV perpetrators.
Refuge capacity will get a boost across the State, with $14.8 million committed for expansions and upgrades to refuges and transitional accommodation in Albany, Broome and Midland bringing the total number of units delivered by the Cook Government to 91 with 102 in the pipeline.
Another $19.4 million dollars will go towards continuing priority initiatives supporting FDV victim-survivors including counselling and therapeutic services.
The funding will also go help develop the Cook's Government's Family and Domestic Violence Strategic Asset Plan to map out future safe and purpose-built accommodation and facilities for victim-survivors across Western Australia.
The Cook Government has also awarded $2.14 million to refurbish 16 units for transitional accommodation in Kalgoorlie. In addition, $876,000 over three years, commencing 1 July 2026, has been allocated for the delivery of an additional Safe at Home program for the region, to provide support for women and children staying at the new units.
The record boost shows the Cook Government's unwavering and powerful commitment to ending family and domestic violence, whether through housing, counselling for women and children, preventing violence before it starts, holding perpetrators to account and helping them address their behaviour or raising awareness of family and domestic violence across our community.
Now in its ninth year, the 16 Days in WA campaign's theme for 2025 is 'Stopping Family and Domestic Violence: Play your part', encouraging Western Australians to take action to increase awareness and call out harmful behaviour to drive cultural change and stop violence before it starts.
For the first time the campaign is focusing on men and boys championing respect for women and taking positive action to support the campaign across the State.
For more information about 16 days in WA, go to https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/department-of-communities/16-days-wa
Comments attributed to Premier Roger Cook:
"My government is committed to doing all it can to end family and domestic violence in Western Australia.
"Every Western Australian deserves to feel secure at home, at work and in the community.
"That is why we have now delivered an unprecedented $707.6 million in new investment to address family and domestic violence across the State.
"Today's $109.9 million investment reinforces our whole-of-system approach to preventing violence before it starts, through supporting victim-survivors with the services they need, while holding perpetrators accountable and raising awareness across the community."
Comments attributed to Prevention of Family and Domestic Violence Minister Jessica Stojkovski:
"From Safe at Home, coercive-control training, behaviour-change programs to specialist supports for women and children, our initiatives work together to prevent violence, support victim-survivors and hold perpetrators to account.
"This record investment backs more staff in Family and Domestic Violence Response Teams, expands refuges across Albany, Broome and Midland, and continues the services that victim-survivors rely on every day.
"Ending family and domestic violence is a whole-of-community effort, and I'm proud of the Cook Government's commitment is helping to build safer, more inclusive communities for all Western Australians."
