An additional 720 safe places for women and children fleeing violent homes will be created as part new funding announced by the federal government.
The places will be inclusive, accessible and specific to the needs of First Nations women, those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and women living with a disability.
Social Services Minister Amanda Rishworth made the $100 million announcement during her speech to the National Press Club on Thursday.
It comes as part of the $1.7 billion allocated in the October budget for measures to address gender-based violence.
"This will improve access to appropriate emergency accommodation options for victim-survivors who may have otherwise found it difficult to access," Ms Rishworth said.
She also announced a national research project on violent perpetrators with the aim to reduce domestic violence rates, increase accountability and reframe community attitudes.
The National Plan to End Violence for 2022 to 2032 was unveiled in parliament last month.
It updates a plan released by former prime minister Julia Gillard in 2010, with a renewed focus on engaging men and boys, creating respectful relationships at all ages and targeting sexual violence.
Ms Rishworth called on all Australians as well as media organisations to help meet this goal.
"The responsibility to stop using violence belongs to the person using it," she said.
"Accountability, in part, is ensuring victim-survivors are never being held responsible for calling out the violence they face."
Ms Rishworth outlined how the government will measure the success of the national plan to end violence within a generation.
"Violence against women and children should not be acceptable or inevitable," she said.
"It will take a generation of change to see a sizeable shift in some places, but I'm confident that significant progress can be made."
Success will include timely and accessible support to people who experience domestic violence and a reduction in the numbers of perpetrators who breach court orders.
It will also be measured by an increase in the number of perpetrators who are held accountable for their actions via the justice system.
Ms Rishworth announced improved strategies to ensure the progress on reducing violence can be measured.
This will include unifying data across all states and territories and increased collection of domestic violence service feedback, as well as the perpetrator behaviour project.
"Too often, the evidence collection focuses on victim-survivors, not on those who choose to use violence, which is the problem that we must address," Ms Rishworth said.
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