The Council was established to ensure the recommendations from the “Not Now, Not Ever: Putting an End to Domestic and Family Violence in Queensland” report are carried out and to put in place a Queensland Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Strategy.

There is little doubt that Australia in general, and Queensland in particular are undergoing a crisis of domestic and family violence and far too many women are dying at the hands of their partners.

The report commissioned in March 2015 found that in Queensland the number of reported incidents increased from 58,000 in 2011-12 to 66,000 in 2013-14.

What this means is that there are about 180 reports to police of domestic violence incidents every day.

It also provided recommendations and insights gathered and developed by the Taskforce to provide to the Premier to set the vision and direction for a Queensland strategy to stop domestic violence.

The Taskforce’s message was that domestic and family violence prevention is everyone’s responsibility. But it also found significant gaps in services across the state and a general lack of a unified response.

It recommended an integrated service response to domestic and family violence across all areas of the State.

It said the Queensland Government should establish pilots for an integrated response model in three sites, one urban, one regional with outreach programs to rural and remote communities, and one discrete Indigenous community integrated response.

On Friday Dame Quentin was in town with Minister for the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence Shannon Fentiman to announce that Mount Isa has been chosen as the regional centre pilot.

Ms Fentiman said the trial would kick off in the second half of the year and would last three years.

She said domestic violence was happening across Queensland but Mount Isa has one of the highest rates of applications for domestic violence orders.