Among the day spas and bed-and-breakfasts in Victoria's central highlands region is a small hotel that, about twice a month, gets a call from police.A domestic violence policy advisor says it is"still unpalatable" to fund vital housing for violent perpetrators
Both major parties have announced hundreds of millions in funding family violence prevention at this election The owners, who don't wish to be identified, provide a room for perpetrators of family violence after police have removed them from their home, and then invoice a Ballarat welfare agency funded to provide men's crisis accommodation."They may or may not be alcohol or drug affected, and then we've obviously got other police functions that we need to do rather than just ferrying people from Trentham into Ballarat or into Bendigo — whatever the case may be.