Nat Barr utters the words on every Australian woman's lips as she grills Labor minister: 'We need answers'

Nat Barr has demanded answers from Australian politicians on what can be done to stop a surge in horrific domestic violence against women.

So far this year 25 women have been allegedly killed at the hands of their partners or former partners, according to White Ribbon.

Mother-of-one Molly Ticehurst, 28, was found dead inside her home in the NSW town of Forbes, about 370km west of Sydney early on Monday.

Ms Ticehurst's ex-boyfriend Daniel Billings, 29, has been charged with her alleged murder.

Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil and Shadow Finance Minister Jane Hume joined Barr on Sunrise on Wednesday morning to discuss how to put an end to the violence.

'We sit here and we do this every week, this is a national crisis, we are looking for answers,' Barr said.

Ms Hume agreed and said that anybody who didn't think there was a problem with violence against women in Australia 'needed to wake up'.

'Twenty-five deaths (allegedly) at the hands of intimate partners in one year alone is unacceptable,' she said.

'But the fact that it's only April and that's the number we're looking at should be setting off alarm bells.'

She said while government frameworks had been set in place towards ending violence against women, more needed to be done.

'Not just done on response but more importantly on prevention. Not just on education but also on those practical, evidence‑based approaches to making sure that violent perpetrators cannot re‑offend, and don't offend in the first place,' Ms Hume said.

'But we can, and we must do better. Not just for young women like the one that we've seen in New South Wales in the last couple of days but for all women around Australia because thousands are living in fear every single day and that's unacceptable in a country like ours.'

Barr asked if more needed to be done around bail laws, given many women had died while their attackers were out on bail.

'Their families, their friends, know about this and then they tell us after the fact that we knew about this, we tried to get help,' the Sunrise host said.

'AVOs [are] obviously useless in many, many cases because we hear that they tried to get help, they went to the police in many circumstances before they were murdered, and then, you know, they can't do any more.'

Ms O'Neil said it was 'exhausting' to be a woman in Australia with so many news reports circulating of violence.

'It's men and their behaviour that has to change here and we need men to be stepping up, having those conversations with their friends about this matter and trying to talk about how we can change society for the better,' she said.

'Because we just, we just can't go on like this.'

The calls for more action come after details emerged about Ms Ticehurst's alleged killer.

He appeared at Orange Local Court on Tuesday accused of murdering Ms Ticehurst and breaching an apprehended violence order.

The father-of-one also faced court for three separate charges of sexual assault, multiple charges of stalking and destruction of property, plus a charge of animal cruelty.

Billings and Ms Ticehurst had been in a relationship for about 18 months until July last year, but they briefly got back together in December.

Billings, originally from Queensland, was on bail for the other charges at the time of Ms Ticehurst's death. He was under court orders not to approach her.