Mr BRIAN MITCHELL (Lyons) (13:57): A call to the Family Violence Counselling and Support Service is often the first call people make when contemplating leaving a relationship due to family violence. This service, which provides counselling, information and support to victims of family violence, received 6,000 referrals last year. That means 6,000 Tasmanians were assessed, contacted, supported and provided with counselling, information and support at a traumatic time in their lives when it was most needed. The problem is that the Family Violence Counselling and Support Service is only funded by the Tasmanian government to deal with 2,000 referrals a year. This is a service that is chronically underfunded. Despite Premier Will Hodgman claiming that eliminating family violence is a top priority for his government, he has failed to allocate even one single extra dollar to this service. The Liberal Premier has friends in this place. The members for Bass and Braddon and the Liberal senators in the other place should be getting on the phone to the Liberal Premier of Tasmania and saying, 'It is time to fund this service properly and give these 6,000 Tasmanians the support they need and deserve. Do the right thing. Save lives.' A woman a week is dying at the hands of perpetrators of family violence in this country, and more must be done.