Labor has promised to implement a new national plan to tackle family violence if it wins government.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten wants to ensure the prevention of violence against women and children remains a focus for Australians.
The first national plan to reduce violence in the home ends in 2022 after starting in 2010, but Labor will begin work on a new strategy with "urgency".
Labor will also invest $18 million over three years to ensure a program designed to help keep women and children safe at home continues.
The program provides women and children with safety planning, screening to ensure privacy and help to enforce apprehended violence orders.
Mr Shorten announced the initiatives on Tuesday night during an event in Canberra with Our Watch, a group aiming to stop violence before it happens.
"Everyone deserves to feel safe in their home. Women should not have to choose between their home and their safety," he said.
Our Watch chair Natasha Stott Despoja said Australians are sick of women being killed by men and want politicians to help stop it.
More than 60 women have been killed by males in Australia this year, with many of the cases being a man known to the woman.
Ms Stott Despoja, a former Australian Democrats leader, has long been calling violence against women a "national emergency".
"Australians are ready for a change to this sense of normality; the idea that more than one woman every week is killed violently is just considered part of what happens," she told AAP.
"Terror in the home is something that is haunting and affecting many Australians.
"People want to solve this issue, so we have to tackle and address the behaviour from the start."
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