Q: On domestic violence and this view not enough has been done. You commissioned a rapid review last year to learn what governments could do quickly and the levers they could pull. Some of the recommendations were that you should restrict access to alcohol and gambling. What is your view on that recommendation and are you committed to doing those two things to take quick action as a government in your next term?
Albanese:
We are committed to making a difference. We do have a $4 billion national plan. We are working through a range of issues with state and territory governments as well. One of the issues that a commitment that we made before the election was for 500 community service workers. Of those, we stepped up, we were unhappy with how slow that was to be implemented. We have to find the staff to do so. 480 of those are in place today.
Q: On gambling and alcohol specifically?
Albanese:
We will work through all of the issues. It is not – there’s not a single issue that you can say if you do this you will solve these problems. In some cases, we need to work through changing attitudes of young Australians as well, the education – the thing we were speaking about before, of changing attitudes.

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