Jess Hill

How would society run?

So police are a big one.

The family law system, despite a lot of efforts to improve it over the last few years, is still horrendously failing victim survivors and their children.

We have children being ordered into the custody and care of parents who they've openly disclosed have harmed them.

And, I mean, you could talk for an hour about the number of systems that are failing.

One I would like to point out that perhaps people don't think about so much is the health system because there are professionals to whom victim survivors and perpetrators are most likely to disclose, doctors and counsellors and psychologists and

And there is no obligation for anyone across the health system to have any understanding of domestic, family and sexual violence, despite the incredible prevalence of it.

And despite the fact that they are often in the position of being a first responder to that.

If we were to activate that health system, I think that we would see massive changes.

We've already had

so many recommendations from coroners to say that if there'd been a better response from that GP at that time, this woman could still be alive.

So we often direct our anger and frustration towards the federal government, not underservedly.

They do hold the purse strings in a number of areas and they do set the tone and set the direction to a certain extent in terms of the response.

But if we're going to change...

Policing, say, for example, if we wanted to bring in, I don't know, like actually independent civilian-led accountability mechanisms and oversight, there is nothing the Prime Minister can do to influence that.

This is firmly in the jurisdiction of state and territories.

And I guess the problem that we have is that there are very few premiers who

who have the guts to take on police.

Most states and territories tend to have a very cosy relationship between the premiers, the police ministers and police commissioners, and it's a protection racket.

This is like the really hard edge of power that we're coming up against when we're trying to get to the nub of why these murders continue and why women and children continue being terrorised by men seemingly with impunity.