Mr. Shane Hamilton:

I would agree that we need specific responses for gender-based services. Those individuals who are crack cocaine users, for example, as I said in my presentation, are not accessing domestic violence accommodation quite often because they are substance users. They are also the ones who are involved in coercive control and multiple other challenges that other genders do not experience as much. We need to be getting more responsive and less reactive. We need to invest in the proper approaches to get out ahead of this and make sure services match this. It is in our research, it is in international research and it has been in a recent supporting women to access appropriate treatment study. The evidence is there, we just do not have the resources to do it.