Cash bid against violence

CASEY councillors agreed on Tuesday night to push for additional funding for the council’s Challenge Family Violence Prevention Project.
The funds are set to dry up in November.
The $60,000 project, funded by the Department of Justice and Regulation and launched in 2013, is a joint partnership between the City of Casey, Cardinia Shire Council, the City of Greater Dandenong and Monash Health and is set to finish before the end of this year.
Councillor Rosalie Crestani raised the motion, carried by her colleagues, for Casey to write to the ministers for Prevention and Family Violence and Police, advocating for additional funding for the Challenge project.
Council research has revealed that two women were killed by their partners in Australia every week, with the City of Casey recording some of the highest numbers of family violence incidents in the state.
Sergeant Ian Lane, who runs the Casey Family Violence Unit from Cranbourne Police Station, recently told the News that his charges were responding to about 10 family violence incidents during every eight hour shift.
“People need to just get involved – they need to stand up and say ‘no, this is not going to happen in my street, my neighbourhood, my community’,” he said.