Other gaps? Increased funding for the implementation of the Domestic and Family Violence 2016 – 2021 Blueprint for Reform. Two years in - and the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research's evaluation of the Safer Pathways program (which lies within the blueprint) read: "[It] had a limited effect on the incidence of domestic violence." We spend half of what Victoria spends on preventing family violence. We don't share the same frameworks or research positions. There is no plan in NSW for ensuring coordinated governance of prevention activities across the state.

Money must go where there is demand: providing refuge from violence; specialist counselling; supporting children affected by family violence.

As the chief executive of DVNSW Moo Baulch says: "The government is not funding the crisis. They are not doing enough to remove the perpetrators."

It is all very well to say that women can stay home – but there is nowhere to put perpetrators, no place to put them when they are not attending the still-unproven male violence prevention programs. (Australia's leading researcher in the area, Professor Donna Chung of Curtin University, says there is not enough evidence to know what works. The best aspect may be that perpetrators are somewhere predictable between "6pm and 8pm on a Tuesday" – so victims have a known time when they can escape.) Perpetrators are hanging around the very homes from which they should be removed. There is no respite for the women.

And what of Aboriginal children, who are now in out-of-home care at 10 times the rate of non-Aboriginal children in NSW, in a crisis which is worsening and which all the apologies to Stolen Generations are not fixing. Tim Ireland, the chief executive of AbSec (the peak Aboriginal organisation within the child and family sector in NSW), is desperate at once again being ignored by the state government. He says that in this area, programs which are Aboriginal-led would cost less - but the government refuses to countenance them much less discuss them with the people who know what to do. In both Canada and New Zealand, Indigenous-led programs cost less and keep families together. On Monday, the child and families advocacy body Fams demanded the government make drastic changes to keep vulnerable children safe.