Marcia Neave uses closing address at last of public hearings to call for change,saying she hopes hearings had ‘exposed the scale and effect of family violence’The chair of Victoria’s royal commission into family violence has said the “structures of government” had in the past impeded responses to family violence and must change as the commission finished its fifth and final week of public hearings. Marcia Neave said in her closing address on Friday: “There would be little point in making recommendations approximately these things unless our recommendations were supported by changes to the structures of government which occupy, in the past, or impeded effective responses to family violence.” Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com