Mar 2016
Last week I participated in a truly inspirational gathering of around 80 leaders from across Australia to discuss how we can develop a national child mental health strategy. The Centre for Community Child Health at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, convened the roundtable. The need to focus on child mental health in a …
Mar 2016
What must we do differently to become a nation where all children and young people grow up safe and well?
That was the central question posed at this week’s policy forum convened by Families Australia in Melbourne. Around 50 people heard about latest developments with the National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Childr…
Feb 2016
For much of the past decade Families Australia has supported adult survivors of children’s institutions in Australia during the 20th century—the ‘Forgotten Australians’—to have their concerns acknowledged and addressed in national policy and programs. Mercifully, large-scale children’s institutions have long been clo…
Jan 2016
Welcome to the Families Australia website. We work to improve the wellbeing of families, especially those experiencing the greatest vulnerability and marginalisation. Families Australia does this by providing policy advice to the Australian Parliament and Government and by running national events such as National Families Week a…
Jan 2016
Q: What are my top three goals at Families Australia?
Q: What have been Families Australia’s key achievements?
Q: What are some of the major challenges facing families?
Q: How is Families Australia making a difference for families?
Q: What is a family?
Q: What inspires me?
Q: What are my top three goals at Families …
Jan 2016
Welcome to the first CEO post of 2016. Just before Christmas I was pleased to be with the Commonwealth Minister for Social Services, the Hon. Christian Porter MP, at the launch of the Third Action Plan (2015-18) under the National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009-2020.
The new Plan represents a significant pa…