Ms Ciara McHugh:

I will follow on from what Ms Coyle said. On what the Senator said about whether to call it out, for too long, as a society, there has been a cult of silence over the mistreatment of women. It needs to be called out. I come from the North. Some of the things we are getting up there include murder threats, death threats and sexual assault threats. It is not acceptable to say that men get it too because there is a sinister element and legitimate threat to women that is very real and a very true threat to women in this society. The Senator is right to call it out.

Ms Deirdre Campbell said resilience training and things like that are being done as well. It is very interesting and she is right. She said resilience is not about saying to get over yourself, and that it is fine and par for the course. In the context of the mental health crisis we have in this country, the damage this is doing to human beings is a very real thing. We very much welcome the task force that will work on this. I 100% agree with the Senator on, and we support, calling it out because it is not acceptable to hide that abuse anymore, as a society.