The federal government's focus on combatting the scourge of gendered violence will see the opening of a new men's wellness centre in Victoria's east.

Social Services Minister Amanda Rishworth announced on Sunday the Gippsland Lakes Complete Health Limited will receive $2.4 million in funding to help set up the Lakes Entrance Aboriginal Health Association (LEAHA) Deyettyan Dardiganni Wellness Service project.

It comes a week after the government announced the Tullawon Health Service Incorporation in Yalata, SA, would receive similar levels of funding to create the Yalata Aṉangu Men's Healing Centre, and a month after the three community-led Men's Wellness Centres in the Top End were announced, with Lingiari MP Marion Scrymgour arguing family and gender-based violence has "far reaching and serious impacts".

Part of the government's 41.4 million Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Action Plan 2023-2025, the centres are about fostering a safe space for men to access a variety of programs to help them reconnect with culture and community, including education and therapy, with the aim of reducing domestic and family violence.

"Together with the other 12 Men's Wellness Centres the Government is funding around Australia, the Lakes Entrance Centre will help us shift the dial on gender-based violence and better support men to keep their families and communities safe," Minister Rishworth said.

Deyettyan Dardiganni Wellness Service project's men's wellness centre on Gunaikurnai country will aim to offer that, connecting First Nations men with Elders, each other, and the East Gippsland community.

"With its strong focus on connection to community and culture, the Deyettyan Dardiganni Wellness Service shows the importance of programs delivered for and by First Nations peoples in creating real change," Minister Rishworth said.

"Through the new Men's Wellness Centres, we are ensuring First Nations men have access to the strengths-based, culturally safe services and activities they need to break the cycle of violence."

The initiative to combat domestic violence comes as part of target 13 under the National Agreement on Closing the Gap, which calls for a reduction of at least 50 per cent of all forms of violence against First Nations women and children by 2031.

There has been significant criticism about the target, with the latest Closing the Gap data revealing no new data had been gathered since the baseline year of 2018-19.

This, despite domestic and gendered violence against First nations women being described as a "national shame" by coroner Elisabeth Armitage.

"Would we be so willing to accept this complete lack of accountability and such outdated data about the safety of other women and children?" Djirra chief executive Antoinette Braybrook asked last year.

"This failure by governments to take even the most basic accountability for the safety of our women and children is completely outrageous. You cannot manage what you do not measure, and it tells us we have so much more to do."

A landmark senate inquiry into missing and murdered First Nations women and children last year called for a review of policing practices, as well as a First Nations role at the Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission and changes to the way the media reports on First Nations deaths.

Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, has been vocal in her criticism of an apparent willingness to overlook domestic violence in Aboriginal communities, telling the Senate earlier this month Indigenous women had not had their feminist movement.

First Nations women are 45 times more likely to experience family violence than non-First Nations women, and at least 25 times more likely to be killed or injured by a former or intimate partner.

At least 476 First Nations women have been killed since 1989, with seventy-two percent killed by their current or former intimate partner.