One stakeholder lamented the amount of in-kind support required to sustain antiracism work, noting that they were reliant on such support and very minimal ad hoc funding. They went on to say: ‘It would be great to have some, umm, people who were good community leaders in this area who were very knowledgeable about this space, who are actually funded, you know, to go out and talk to schools, sporting groups, community groups, council and just have that work funded. And so, this is, you know, constant engagement and storytelling and sharing and building the capacity to know what to do and being able to connect with police and community lawyers and others like the preventive space, but also then the action of what to do the response as well.’71 Another stakeholder emphasised that greater government funding is needed beyond existing efforts which cover one off events, project work and engagement but do not include resources for public advertising campaigns and other initiatives that are needed to drive real change. They said that a lack of adequate funding for public awareness campaigns in particular means that these rely on work ‘done on [by] communities, (public) service announcements and freebies and social media.’72 The need for greater funding was also closely associated with need for greater involvement in anti-racism efforts by governments at all levels. One participant believed that the level of investment required needs to be on par with some of the other major national policy priorities such as child protection and family violence to begin to adequately address racism in Australia. They felt there was a sense that the Federal Government puts the onus for addressing racism onto other stakeholders that that they could just pay to deliver ad-hoc initiatives instead of developing a comprehensive, whole of government led process: ‘Governments need to say, here are five things we need to do to prevent racism and deal with racism and we are going to need to fund it. I don't think that's in their mindset.’73 Better protections from racism There was strong feedback from local government participants about the need for better protections to address racism, beyond simply increasing funding. 71 Victorian stakeholder 72 National stakeholder 73 National stakeholder 42