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Submissions to Inquiries

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.

Recent submissions can be viewed below.

In addition, Families Australia assisted the Alliance for Forgotten Australians (AFA) to prepare submissions to a range of inquiries between 2007 and 2015. These can be accessed on the AFA website.

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Families Australia: comments on The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse consultation paper on institutional responses to child sexual abuse in out-of-home care

Apr 2016

Families Australia welcomes the Royal Commission’s focus on child sexual abuse in Out-of-Home Care and the opportunity to respond to the Consultation Paper: Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Out-of-Home Care. Our submission is supportive of the proposed solutions to address the problems identified within the con…

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

Jun 2015

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 (the ‘National Framework’)—Australia’s first-ever national policy aimed at making a sus…

Families Australia: submission to the the Department of Social Services on the National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009-20: Recommendations for the Third Action Plan 2015-18

Apr 2015

This paper contains recommendations by Families Australia and the Steering Group of the Coalition of Organisations Committed to the Safety and Wellbeing of Australia’s Children (the ‘NGO Coalition’) to assist discussions about the development of the Third Action Plan (2015-18) under the National Framework for Protecting Au…

Families Australia: submission to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee on the Inquiry into violence, abuse and neglect against people with disability in institutional and residential settings, including the gender and age related dimensions, and the particular situation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability, and culturally and linguistically diverse people with disability

Feb 2015

Families Australia acknowledges the current National Disability Insurance Scheme consultation process on the Proposal for a National Disability Insurance Scheme Quality and Safeguarding framework. We strongly support the development of this framework.

Families Australia: submission to the Environment and Communications Legislation Committee on the Enhancing Online Safety for Children Bill 2014 and Enhancing Online Safety for Children (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2014

Jan 2015

Cyber (Online) safety for children has been an ongoing focus of the National Framework with the Second Three-Year Action Plan, 2012-2015[1] including an action to develop and trial programs to prevent sexual abuse and keep children safe, including specific programs for remote Indigenous communities, such as the cyber smart outre…
 

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