{"id":51623,"date":"2024-05-01T15:36:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T05:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=51623"},"modified":"2024-05-01T15:36:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T05:36:43","slug":"australian-pm-says-violence-against-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=51623","title":{"rendered":"Australian PM says violence against women a &#8216;national crisis&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Australia&#8217;s prime minister on Wednesday declared violence against women a &#8220;scourge&#8221; and a &#8220;national crisis&#8221;, days after protests in several major cities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meeting state premiers, Anthony Albanese announced a raft of measures and funding to tackle &#8220;toxic male extremist views&#8221;, curb deep fake pornography and fund help for victims.<\/p>\n<p>Albanese told Australians that &#8220;we all have to take responsibility&#8221; for stamping out violence.<\/p>\n<p>So far this year, 28 women have been killed in the country &#8212; an average of one death every four days.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, 14 women died in the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>The deaths have sparked a reckoning, with domestic violence survivors and support services demanding stricter laws at nationwide protests last week.<\/p>\n<p>Albanese on Wednesday announced new legislation to ban deep fake pornography and additional funding for the country&#8217;s online watchdog to pilot age assurance technologies.<\/p>\n<p>He also announced Aus$925 million (US$598 million) in funding to bolster support services for those fleeing violent situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s prime minister on Wednesday declared violence against women a &#8220;scourge&#8221; and a &#8220;national crisis&#8221;, days after protests in several major cities. Meeting state premiers, Anthony Albanese announced a raft of measures and funding to tackle &#8220;toxic male extremist views&#8221;, curb deep fake pornography and fund help for victims. Albanese told Australians that &#8220;we all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1348],"class_list":["post-51623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-australian-pm-says-violence-against-women-a-national-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}