Rosie Batty and Luke Batty. The numbers are staggering, the effects are profound, and the human cost is unacceptable. Now, with Australia's first Royal Commission into Family Violence handing down its final report, the time has come to change it all. The time has come to fix our failing family violence support system, a system that is full of dedicated professionals and volunteers who, with a bit more help, can save far more lives. The time has come to do something about intervention orders, these pieces of paper that can keep you safe in your mind but won't keep you safe in your home. The time has come to do something about bail, about police technology, about the privacy of perpetrators, about the courts, and about our hospitals, our schools, and the things we teach our kids.

The time has come to punish the perpetrators. Most importantly, the time has come to listen to the survivors. One of those survivors is Victoria's own Minister for the Prevention of Family Violence, Fiona Richardson. On Monday she joined her mum and brothers on national television and told us their harrowing story. Richardson, who has spent the past year dealing with Victoria's flawed family violence support system, made one thing very clear: "If you actually set out to design a system most likely to fail … you would design the system that we have." Well, from today we will start overhauling that system from the bottom up. We have accepted every single one of the royal commission's recommendations, and in some cases we will even go further. We won't just be leading the nation, here, we'll be leading the world. The pace of change will be rapid. Some people might not like what we do. But we have to do it. We can't be weak. I absolutely refuse to look back in 10 years and admit that we could have done more to save innocent lives. We've failed enough already. We're going to get this right. And we're going to do it by bringing the Victorian people along with us, every step of the way.

The royal commission was as full and frank and upfront an assessment as our system allows. Almost 1000 submissions were received. It has given us thousands of pages of answers. And it has given countless survivors a voice. Two years ago I was backstage on a phone to Rosie Batty, telling her that I was just about to give a speech announcing a royal commission into family violence. Now I am proud to stand side-by-side with Rosie and other survivors as the royal commission's report is formally delivered. During that time, family violence found a new prominence in political debate. But as Rosie Batty will tell you, it's not a new issue. In fact, violence against women and children is the oldest weapon of fear there is. We don't just need to change the system that deals with family violence. We also need to change the culture that creates it. I've always believed that bad outcomes for women start with bad attitudes towards women. So with the release of today's report, let us all pledge to change those attitudes too. If we save just one life, it will be worth it.

Daniel Andrews is the Premier of Victoria.