A wave of domestic violence-related deaths across New South Wales — four people killed, including one child, in a single weekend — has intensified scrutiny of how Australia allocates its funding to combat the crisis. Despite a AU$4.7 billion federal commitment to gender-based violence services, analysts and advocates argue the bulk of spending targets crisis response rather than stopping violence before it occurs, with prevention programs consistently underfunded; in NSW, for instance, only AU$19.3 million of a recent AU$184.1 million injection went toward men's behaviour change initiatives. With the Australian Bureau of Statistics reporting an 8% rise in domestic violence cases in the 2024–25 financial year — the highest since national recording began — critics say governments must redirect resources toward challenging the behaviour of perpetrators, who are overwhelmingly male, before further lives are lost.