A commitment to hire hundreds of domestic violence support workers is yet to be met just weeks from the deadline.

In recent days, political leaders have declared violence against women a "national crisis" and committed to address the matter with urgency.

Last year the federal government announced it would provide $169 million over four years to fund 500 new frontline workers to assist people who had experienced family, domestic or sexual violence.

Under the program, the Commonwealth provides the funding and outlines how it must be spent, but the states are responsible for ensuring workers are hired.

The states and territories committed to filling 352 positions nationwide by June 30.

Nearly a year on, some states have filled a handful of positions while others haven't provided details about how many staff have been employed.

State vs state

The ABC asked each state and territory how many staff it had committed to hiring by June 30 and how many it had employed so far.

The three states recruiting the bulk of positions, New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria, are yet to provide the requested information.

The ACT said it had hired five people in full-time jobs out of the six it had committed to.

The Northern Territory said it would employ 18 workers by June 30 and three have been recruited.

South Australia confirmed it had filled eight full-time positions out of the 30 full-time positions it had committed to.

In Western Australia, six full-time positions had been filled out of 38.

Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff said several people had been hired.

"Our quota if you like for those 500 positions is 25," he said.

"We have filled almost 17 of those full-time equivalent positions, well above every state."

End the political fighting

The frontline worker package was discussed during the national cabinet on Wednesday when states and territory leaders met with the prime minister to work through what could be done to reduce domestic violence.

Anthony Albanese said he would like to see an acceleration of the hiring process.

"We're not responsible for employing them," he said.

"What we've done is provide the financing, and one of the things that we made clear yesterday is that states and territories have to get on with making sure that people are employed."

While the federal government insists it's now a state issue, Mr Albanese did acknowledge there were difficulties in finding staff.

"There are workforce issues. That's one of the contradictions in this," he said.

Western Australian Premier Roger Cook said any criticism levelled at the states was unwarranted.

"We are doing everything we can to boost services in Western Australia," he said.

"Sometimes recruiting to difficult roles, particularly when it comes to perpetrator counselling and other services, these are difficult roles to fill."

South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas said the Commonwealth had put "a lot of restrictions getting that money out the door" but didn't outline what the problems were.

Some of the states have also argued their role is to allocate the funding to service providers, who are then responsible for completing the recruitment.

Katherine Berney from the National Women's Safety Alliance said politicians had to work together instead of pointing fingers.

"I think it's disappointing that we have a politicised issue about something that is something so critical," she said.

"The federal government has said we have paid for the program, the states and territories are saying it's too hard to work within the boundaries of the program … work with [the] sector to come up with a solution.

"The time for back and forth and that political fighting is done, we are in a national crisis, we need everyone to be working together to find better outcomes for victim-survivors."

Problems with the program and staffing shortages in the sector

Domestic violence advocates have raised concerns that the funding doesn't go far enough and that is part of the reason why it has been so difficult for frontline services to hire staff.

Ms Berney said the cash only covers an employee's salary and no other incidentals, which puts organisations already strapped for cash under further pressure.

"Superannuation, holiday leave, computer, a car if you are a social worker, they are not provided within the package," she said.

"So what we are doing is asking already underfunded services to provide extra funding for their staff, it's really tricky."

Domestic Violence New South Wales CEO said the salaries being offered weren't competitive.

"What I am hearing from counterparts all over Australia is that the salaries for those roles are really low," she said.

"So I think we've got an issue with how we are retaining, attracting and investing in the domestic and family workforce."