The Victorian government has failed to prioritise Aboriginal women and children's safety in its budget, despite a $600 million surplus, a leading Indigenous family violence organisation says.

Specialist family violence Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation, Djirra, says the overall lack of support comes at a time when violence against Aboriginal women is occurring at "epidemic levels," arguing: "When will our lives matter?"

Despite comments surrounding Victoria's debt levels, the budget will see a $727 million injection to increase the capacity in Victoria's prisons and youth justice centres, with one eye on the likely influx of people to be held on remand as a result of 'tough' bail laws introduced earlier this year.

Djirra said whilst they welcomed the $22 million investment in the Aboriginal Self Determination Fund to "support our people on remand or bail," Aboriginal women will continue to be disproportionately impacted in the criminal justice system.

Noting the investment in prisons, the organisation said it has "prioritised this instead of investing in Aboriginal women's and children's safety".

Chief executive Antoinette Braybrook AM argued Indigenous women "deserve more" than the budget offered them.

"While there were some very small wins for Aboriginal women in this budget, it is not enough to save lives," she said.

"We have seen Governments falling short and failing Aboriginal women and children, over and over again, for too long now."

Last year, a Senate report into murdered Indigenous women and children urged the Attorney-General to task the Police Ministers Council to "conduct a review of existing police practices in each jurisdiction, consider the learnings from each jurisdiction and aim to implement and harmonise best police practices across Australia" by the end of this year.

In response to the report, Djirra said police culture needed to change, and argued policing could not be part of the solution to ending gendered violence.

Aboriginal women will be racially targeted, criminalised and incarcerated as a result of 'tough on crime' policies, Djirra said, noting close to 90 per cent of Aboriginal women in prison have experienced family and sexual violence.

80 per cent are mothers.

"The Government can do better by simply prioritising funding for our specialist frontline - not only life-saving but life-changing - work," a Djirra spokesperson said.

The Yoorrook Justice Commission heard evidence last year of Victorian Police treating family violence call-outs as "roll your eyes" matters and wrongfully accusing Aboriginal women of being perpetrators of domestic violence.

Women who called the police were often wrongly charged, often having their children removed and placed in child protection as a result. A lack of refuges means women often do not report family violence out of a fear of losing their children, Yoorrook heard.

It teaches women that they shouldn't report family violence because they "risk losing your children to a system that will harm them," the head of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, Nerita Waight, said at the time.

Ms Braybrook says the demands for Djirra's services continue to rise. She argued despite two decades of fighting to be "heard and invested in," they have only seen the situation "get worse for our women and children.".

"We are not able to pause our work or close our doors because if we do, Aboriginal women and children's safety will be compromised and their lives taken," she said.

"We will not stop. Aboriginal women's lives, safety and self-determined solutions must be invested in – this is a non-negotiable."