NSW’s deadly domestic violence record continues into 2026

Today in Parliament, Abigail gave notice of a motion continuing to call on the NSW Government to urgently and properly fund domestic and family violence prevention and frontline services.

Abigail said:

I give notice that on the next sitting day I will move:

(1) That this House notes that:

in the first month of 2026, six women were murdered in Australia, allegedly by men they knew, with two of those murders taking place in NSW;
during the last week of January, three people were killed in Lake Cargelligo in an alleged domestic violence incident, including 24 year old Sophie Quinn, a pregnant First Nations woman, her 50 year old aunt Nerida Quinn and her 32 year old friend John Harris;
First Nations women and children continue to be significantly over-represented in domestic and family violence statistics, experiencing higher rates of violence, serious injury and death than any other group in NSW;
according to Domestic Violence NSW, for over a decade the NSW government has failed to properly invest in core funding for specialist frontline domestic and family violence services;
frontline domestic and family violence services are reporting waitlist times of over eight weeks, some stretching for months on end;
according to a recent report by DVNSW, the costs of delivering domestic and family violence services in regional, rural and remote communities is an estimated 8.94 times higher than in metropolitan communities; and
in 2025, NSW once again recorded the highest rate of women murdered in a domestic and family violence context, according to Counting Dead Women Australia researchers of Destroy The Joint.

(2) That this House extends its deepest condolences to the families, loved ones and community of Central West NSW in the wake of these devastating murders.

(3) That this House calls on the NSW government to:

heed the calls of experts to properly invest in the evidence-based prevention, response and recovery services and programs that prevent and respond to domestic and family violence incidents,
commit to properly investing in the domestic and family violence frontline, by meeting the demands of Domestic Violence NSW for a minimum 50 percent increase in core funding for existing specialist domestic and family violence services;
engage with First Nations communities to facilitate genuine truth-telling about the ongoing impacts of colonisation, systemic racism, intergenerational trauma and chronic under-investment in Aboriginal-led responses to domestic and family violence;
ensure that adequate and additional funding for the domestic and family violence frontline is directed to Aboriginal-led, community-controlled solutions that are culturally safe and trauma-informed; and
commit to providing a supplementary regional loading payment for regional, rural and remote domestic and family violence frontline services, to begin addressing the compounding barriers and rising demand facing these communities.

3 February 2026

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