Current policy areas

Families Australia regularly provides submissions on family-related topics. Most submissions are in response to Australian Government and Parliamentary inquiries and consultations. Families Australia also makes submissions to inquiries conducted at State or Territory government level.

View our recent submissions by category below:

2025-2026 Pre-budget submission

In the current environment, rising living costs and systemic inequalities continue to deepen the challenges for those most in need

Advisory Group Consultation – National Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Child Sexual Abuse

Families Australia and the Institute of Child Protection Studies provide the following joint response to the National Strategy Advisory Group Consultation paper

Consultation on Draft National Children’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy

View Families Australia’s feedback on the National Children’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy here

Submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence

Families Australia welcomes the opportunity to provide a submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into family, domestic and sexual violence

Submission on establishing the National Centre for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse

View Families Australia’s submission to the Department of Health consultation on establishing a National Plan for the health of children and young people: 2020 to 2030 here

What is known about systems that enable the ‘public health approach’ to protecting children

View Families Australia’s submission to the Productivity Commission consultation on protecting children here

Australia’s progress on the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

View Families Australia’s submission to the Australian Human Rights Commission consultation: Australia’s progress on the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child here

Families Australia response to the ParentsNext National Expansion Discussion Paper

I write in response to the call for response to the ParentsNext National Expansion Discussion Paper released on 12 September 2017

Taking stock and moving ahead

Download Families Australia’s submission, Taking stock and moving ahead: a report on consultative forums on the National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009-2020

Submission to Indigenous health consultations

Download the Families Australia submission to Indigenous health consultations

Advisory Group Consultation – National Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Child Sexual Abuse

Families Australia and the Institute of Child Protection Studies provide the following joint response to the National Strategy Advisory Group Consultation paper

Consultation on Draft National Children’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy

View Families Australia’s feedback on the National Children’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy here

Submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence

Families Australia welcomes the opportunity to provide a submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into family, domestic and sexual violence

Submission on establishing the National Centre for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse

View Families Australia’s submission to the Department of Health consultation on establishing a National Plan for the health of children and young people: 2020 to 2030 here

What is known about systems that enable the ‘public health approach’ to protecting children

View Families Australia’s submission to the Productivity Commission consultation on protecting children here

Australia’s progress on the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

View Families Australia’s submission to the Australian Human Rights Commission consultation: Australia’s progress on the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child here

Families Australia response to the ParentsNext National Expansion Discussion Paper

I write in response to the call for response to the ParentsNext National Expansion Discussion Paper released on 12 September 2017

Taking stock and moving ahead

Download Families Australia’s submission, Taking stock and moving ahead: a report on consultative forums on the National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009-2020

Families Australia: input into the future of the Queensland apprenticeship and traineeship system

I write in response to the call for input into the ‘Positive Futures: Apprenticeships and Traineeships in Queensland’ paper

The COAG National Summit on Reducing Violence Against Women and their Children

View Families Australia’s contribution to the COAG National Summit here

2025-2026 Pre-budget submission

In the current environment, rising living costs and systemic inequalities continue to deepen the challenges for those most in need

Families Australia response to the ParentsNext National Expansion Discussion Paper

I write in response to the call for response to the ParentsNext National Expansion Discussion Paper released on 12 September 2017

Families Australia: submission to the Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision

I write in response to the call for feedback on the proposed reporting framework on ‘what works to improve outcomes in government services’

Three pledges for families in the 2016 election

Too many families experience deep and persistent disadvantage and marginalisation

Families Australia: submission to the ACT Government discussion paper concerning the design of a new model for the effective protection of human rights in the ACT

Families Australia’s standing in relation to the ACT Government’s review of its human rights framework is grounded in its work to design, promote and implement the National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009-2020

Families Australia: submission to the Reference Group on Welfare Reform to the Minister of Social Services in response to the Interim Report ‘A New System for Better Employment and Social Outcomes’

Families Australia appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Interim Report of the Reference Group on Welfare Reform to the Minister for Social Services

2013 Federal election proposals

Assisting families and individuals who experience vulnerability to participate as fully as possible in building Australian economic productivity and family and community life is the central aim of Families Australia’s 2013 policy proposals

Families Australia: submission to the Australian Government on the future directions of the Family Support Program (FSP)

We welcome the review and hope that the coming year will be used for a thorough process of consultation, especially taking the program back to an examination of family needs first rather than being shaped around existing service models

2010 Federal election proposals

Families Australia strongly believes that there should be...

Families Australia: submission to the Australian Government regarding the proposed National Compact

Families Australia supports, in principle, the development of a Compact

Submission to Indigenous health consultations

Download the Families Australia submission to Indigenous health consultations